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Edge and the Art Collector

In 1999, he bought Munch’s Madonna for $11 million. In 2004, he bought Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living for $8 million. In 2006, he bought a…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 16, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3408 words)

The Mailed Fist and Its Prophet

Of all the public critics of the Germans in modern times, not even excepting H. G. Wells, Napoleon III, and the ravished burghers of Louvain, there has been none who belabored the Tedesco skull with…
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5720 words)

The Novels of Mrs. Wharton

When Mrs. Wharton's stories first appeared, in that early period which, as we have now learned, was merely a period of apprenticeship, everybody said, "How clever!" "How wonderfully clever!" and the…
LENGTH: 30 minutes (7604 words)

LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS

ELI DINERon a new biography of Coco Chanel. Lisa ChaneyCoco Chanel: An Intimate Life Viking Adult, November 2011. 464 pp.A splendid list of accomplishments is frequently attributed to Coco Chanel:…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3842 words)

Kurt Vonnegut, The Art of Fiction No. 64

This interview with Kurt Vonnegut was originally a composite of four interviews done with the author over the past decade. The composite has gone through an extensive working over by the subject…
LENGTH: 40 minutes (10034 words)

t.co / Twitter

Twitter uses the t.co domain as part of a service to protect users from harmful activity, to provide value for the developer ecosystem, and as a quality signal for surfacing relevant, interesting…
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Insider Baseball

1.It occurred to me, in California in June and in Atlanta in July and in New Orleans in August, in the course of watching first the California primary and then the Democratic and Republican…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 27, 1988
LENGTH: 39 minutes (9980 words)

Trial of the Will

Death has this much to be said for it: You don’t have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free. —Kingsley Amis Pointed threats, they bluff with…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1652 words)

Pat Dollard’s War on Hollywood

His mother again moved the family, but Dollard’s father found them. Dollard was in first grade, a scholarship student at a Catholic elementary school, when his dad took a job parking cars…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1457 words)
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