Digging it
Tunnel 29 reviewed
Books and Arts
Monday
Monday
Who killed Bambi?
The Original Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest by Felix Salten reviewed
The invisible hand
The Maid by Nita Prose reviewed
One hundred years of Ulysses
James Joyce’s Ulysses caused a sensation on its publication a century ago
On literary cross-dressing
The pre-woke literary world considered authorial freedom sacrosanct
Style and substance
Réginald-Jérôme de Mans evokes a Parisian world of glittering elegance
Stacking up
Substack gives authors an opportunity to take back control of their own careers and destinies
Kandinsky’s colors
Kandinsky is getting spun up the Guggenheim’s spiral
Wynton’s works
Wynton Marsalis has not allowed tradition to become self-serving traditionalism
How did Walt Disney learn from Ancien Régime decoration?
Inspiring Walt Disney makes the case that Disney’s studio functioned in a similar way to an eighteenth-century decorative art manufactory
Truth in Duluth
Girl from the North Country is a delight as pure as birdsong
Jake Gyllenhaal is guilty
He carries his latest film and keeps it from going off the rails
Richard Lester at ninety
He lent ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ the spirit of untamed frivolity
Carry that weight
Not just women’s health but sexual health in general has been understudied by the medical community for a long time
Thursday
Books of the Year 2021
Our best reads and most pertinacious page-turners of 2021
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece is finally appearing
March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn reviewed
The Road Not Traveled
A short story
A brush with Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell was a female star of the Abstract Expressionist boys’ club
Prints of Wales and elsewhere
Amid the turbulence of modernism, British artists made art for themselves
Broadway’s back(side)
Six and Chicken & Biscuits reviewed