Books
John Vassos, Industrial Design for Modern Life is not only an essential book for designers, but for those who love the history of design.
For Cynthia Ozick, critics connect the dots; they inform us about what kind of culture we’re living in.
Hilmes’ fascination with Liszt’s public notoriety stands front-and-center in this biographical effort.
One of the ironies inf American Rhapsody is that most of the artists Pierpont takes up didn’t find life in America to be rhapsodic at all.
This canny writer is concerned with the kind of complicated family relationships that engaged his Jewish literary forebears.
Former Newsweek bureau chief Joshua Hammer has documented a timely story of cultural heroism.
Alan Furst’s books are spy thrillers infused with a crisp, rather than a flowery, literary sensibility.
Digging Up Mother: A Love Story is Doug Stanhope’s disarmingly funny, unexpectedly sweet memoir.
Exit Right is about how six men entered into politics on the left side of the spectrum and wound up immured in varying extremes of conservatism.
Book Review: “Better Living Through Criticism” — Critical Self-Help
A.O. Scott’s hurrah for criticism should be savored by anyone interested in how we articulate the value of the arts.
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