In my seventeenth year, there suddenly appeared in Fifth Avenue a very small canary-yellow brougham with dark trimmings, drawn by a big, high-stepping bay and driven by a coachman who matched the ...
When Ann Manov was an undergraduate humanities student at the University of Florida at the beginning of the 2010s, Florida ...
That summer we lived in two houses, one after the other. I had remembered it as two summers, but my brother, Gabriel, reminded me, no, it was all one summer, 1961, when he turned six and I turned ...
From “Save Penn Station,” which was published in Issue 31 of the New York Review of Architecture. “Hellhole” was the word that New York governor Kathy Hochul used for the existing Pennsylvania Station ...
“It may be,” Edmund Wilson wrote in 1929, “that the United States will develop into a great imperialistic power with all its artists, critics, and philosophers as ineffective and as easily ...
Democracy, English, and the wars over usage 21st century Bryan A. Garner Dictionaries E.W. Gilman English language Eric Partridge Errors of usage H.W. (Henry Watson) Fowler Lexicography Philip Babcock ...
May I be forgiven if I take as my text the sixth page of the fourth chapter of The Bonfire of the Vanities? The novel’s main character, Sherman McCoy, is driving over the Triborough Bridge in New York ...
Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found, by Andrew Graham-Dixon. W. W. Norton. 416 pages. $45. There’s an anecdote that crops up sooner or later in almost any book about Johannes Vermeer. In 1663, a French ...
Though I have been hearing (or rather reading) it a lot lately in many venues, it was a little odd — even a bit unsettling — to read it in the New York Times: My favorite part of writing is taking ...
The task of the cervix is to stay closed, to make an impenetrable wall protecting the fetus, for approximately forty weeks of a pregnancy. After that, by means of labor, the wall must somehow become ...
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time, by Hilary Spurling. Knopf. 480 pages. $35. There are about four hundred named characters in A Dance to the Music of Time, a twelve-novel sequence that ...
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