‘Freedom’: living up to great advance press
The new Jonathan Franzen novel “Freedom” has been so extravagantly praised for so many weeks now that the actual appearance of the book in stores on Tuesday felt slightly anti-climactic. Not since...
View ArticleThe star who changed our notions of beauty
Barbra Streisand has been a star and pop culture icon for so long now that it is easy to lose sight of the revolutionary impact she had on show business 50 years ago. Streisand’s distinctive looks were...
View Article‘Penn Station, New York’: ghosts of 1958
If we had time machines, I would probably take a trip back to Pennsylvania Station in New York City before they made the terrible mistake of razing it in the mid-1960s. What photographs show to be one...
View ArticleGoing back to TIME magazine
It might seem very Luddite-like to admit it, but I have turned back to TIME magazine after years of a believing the idea of a weekly newsmagazine was as passe as Betamax. With so much instant...
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