Heidi Swanson, the whole food revolutionary
In an effort to lighten up my diet for the summer, I explored the 101 Cookbooks catalogue
Books & Arts
The surreal life of Leonora Carrington
The artist and writer’s life is the story of the twentieth century in microcosm
What the Old Masters can teach us about contemporary life
In many of their most enduring images, the Old Masters did not shy away from asking ‘Why?’ in the face of suffering and trauma
Taking in Good Night, Oscar and New York, New York
Good Night, Oscar takes us back to a time when, for better or worse, both foibles and felonies were targets for humor
The history of a Britney Spears masterpiece
Blackout laid the foundation for the EDM revolution, Lady Gaga’s self-referential debut album and the rest of the past fifteen years of pop
Men at War examines homosexuality among World War Two soldiers
Luke Turner’s essential thesis is that the war opened up a brief time of sexual liberation for men
The troubled relationship between Mussolini and his son-in-law
Count Galeazzo Ciano’s career is uniquely revealing as an insight into the perils of joining the family business
Lorrie Moore explores the thin veil between life and death
It’s hard to find writers ancient or modern who have used language with a music, wit and tenderness comparable to Moore’s
Lady Caroline Lamb and the frantic bed-hopping between the great houses of England
Antonia Fraser paints a convincing, shocking picture of upper-class mores in the late eighteenth century
Why is George Orwell so difficult to pin down?
The writer is an easy man to admire and sympathize with, but a hard one to like
The great late Yeats
A century ago, W.B. Yeats won the Nobel Prize. It was the start of a remarkable late era for the Irish poet
