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Why Read the Classics?

Let us begin with a few suggested definitions. 1) The classics are the books of which we usually hear people say: I am rereading and never I am reading . This at least happens among those who…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 9, 1986
LENGTH: 1 minutes (303 words)

VERSIONS OF STOPPARD

One of the greatest living playwrights is also a sought-after screenwriter and a conservative modernist. As his adaptations of "Anna Karenina" and "Parade's End" arrive, Victoria Glendinning goes for…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3942 words)

Hua Hsu on A Taxonomy of Office Chairs

"FOR YEARS AND YEARS architects and designers all over the world have been designing thousands of chairs," the Milanese artist and designer Bruno Munari remarked in his 1966 essay collection, Design…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1999 words)
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What It Cost Eight Women Writers To Make It In New York

Top row: Dorothy Parker, Zora Neale Hurston, Shirley Jackson, Gael Greene. Bottom row: Patti Smith, Susan Sontag, Tama Janowitz, Kate Christensen. In 1967, Patti Smith wrote in Just Kids, she was…
AUTHOR:Brent Cox
PUBLISHED: April 17, 2012
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5736 words)

LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS

LEE KONSTANTINOUon Ben Marcus’s The Flame Alphabet and the death of the reader. The Letter “P” © Victor Stabin, from Daedle DoodleBen MarcusThe Flame Alphabet Knopf, January…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3099 words)

The Last Laugh

Norman Mailer went out running with Muhammad Ali one morning, a few days before the fight with George Foreman in Zaire. He asked me to go with him, but I thought of the long ride to Ali’s…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 4, 1977
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5210 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)

Shelf Life

I N THE 1990S, I spent many weeks in what must be, or at any rate should be, every Indian’s favourite city—Bombay, a city whose depth of history and richly lived (and intensely felt)…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4730 words)
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