Weight and Wit
July 6, 2012
Nora Ephron's light touch was no accident.
Escape from a “Necrocracy”
April 9, 2012
In North Korea, the hunger games have been raging for quite some time.
Town Crier Michael Lewis Travels the New Third World
October 18, 2011
A review of Michael Lewis’s new book, Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World, which illuminates the underpinnings of the global financial crisis.
No Sound, But So Loud
September 12, 2011
The International Center of Photography’s installation, “Memory Remains: 9/11 Artifacts in Hangar 17,” reminds us how simple items, such as an aging subway ad and a newspaper clipping, have the ability to access a truth that exceeds the grasp of words.
Welcome to Ost
September 8, 2011
The skeletons of the lost Soviet empire continue to fascinate Americans.
The Bittersweet Romance of the pre-“High Line” High Line
July 21, 2011
| Joel Sternfeld’s photographs show us a time when the High Line was a river of grass. |
David Carr Versus the World
June 17, 2011
| The subject of the new documentary Page One: Inside the New York Times makes you wonder how America has allowed itself to be sated on a diet of high-fructose Kardashian for so many seasons. |
