Do The DiaAfter a spring of being queued, herded, and rushed through blockbuster art shows (Matisse-Picasso, Manet-Velazquez, and Leonardo), the first thi […]
Picasso vs. Matisse: MoMA’s Subway SeriesThe battle of the titans of twentieth-century art is taking place in Long Island City, which brings up a new issue: Which is New York’s left bank?
Queens ModernFor two decades, Long Island City has been a destination for the art crowd, who flocked to cutting-edge showcases like P.S.1. But with MOMA movi […]
Design: Milton Glaser’s Telltale . . .You know Milton Glaser’s work. You see it every day, on every coffee cup reading I LOVE NY. The mere mention of which makes Glaser sigh. “I don’ […]
Fall Preview: BooksThe Mineral PalaceHeidi Julavits is this year’s hype winner. But the first novel, with a reported half-million-dollar advance, will surprise eve […]
Design: Logo MotivesThe Whitney’s new identity makeover plasters letterhead, cards, and shopping bags with an “almost embarrassingly confident” new typeface.
See the SitesLog on to the new e-style with interior designer Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz as he furnishes an entire loft in just under three hours.
50 Ways to Love. . . Park Slope (41-50)In the second of our series of highly personal, brazenly arbitrary neighborhood tours, our staff writer sings the praises of her neighborhood.
50 Ways to Love. . . Park Slope (11-20)In the second of our series of highly personal, brazenly arbitrary neighborhood tours, our staff writer sings the praises of her neighborhood.
50 Ways to Love. . . Park Slope (1-10)In the second of our series of highly personal, brazenly arbitrary neighborhood tours, our staff writer sings the praises of her neighborhood.
50 Ways to Love . . . Park Slope (31-40)In the second of our series of highly personal, brazenly arbitrary neighborhood tours, our staff writer sings the praises of her neighborhood.
50 Ways to Love. . . Park Slope (21-30)In the second of our series of highly personal, brazenly arbitrary neighborhood tours, our staff writer sings the praises of her neighborhood.
Books: Men OverboardIn Backlash, Susan Faludi detailed the anti-feminist reaction to women’s lib. With Stiffed, she says men got a raw deal, too.
Move Over, Cecil B. DeMille . . .From Vegas to Velvet Goldmine, rainbow feathers, silver wings, and neon codpieces owe a glamorous debt to Carnaval. “It’s like a movie productio […]
The Other Philadelphia StoryTwenty years ago, Gemini, a comedy of minors set in South Philly, gave Albert Innaurato his first (and only) Broadway hit. A new revival […]
‘City of Light’A distaff Alienist, first-time author Lauren Belfer’s hefty, fog-bound City of Light (The Dial Press; $24.95) exchanges Gotham for Buffalo but s […]
‘Lord of the Barnyard’Part political spoof, part social commentary, Tristan Egolf’s Lord of the Barnyard (Grove Press; $24) merges dirty jokes with three-dollar words […]
‘White Oleander’There’s something sickening about Janet Fitch’s first novel, White Oleander (Little, Brown; $24), and it’s not entirely intentional. Her premise […]
‘Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys’Will Self is so smart he tends to be lazy, writing books about premises rather than about people. In Cock & Bull, people grow new genitals. In G […]
Nathan’s FamousA yeshiva boy turned expat writer, Nathan Englander biopsies the Orthodox mind-set.
The Towers That Will BeArchitects Michael Graves and Robert A.M. Stern are selling name-brand design to the (Upper East Side) masses.
‘South of the Border, West of the Sun’In South of the Border, West of the Sun (Alfred A. Knopf; $22), Haruki Murakami applies his patented Japanese magic realism – minimalist, smoot […]
‘Werewolves in Their Youth’Werewolves in Their Youth (Random House; $22.95), Michael Chabon’s new story collection, reads as if he sat down and thought, What’s the worst t […]
‘The Crime of Sheila McGough’The Crime of Sheila McGough (Knopf; $22) is, to put it plainly, charmlessness. And it is Janet Malcolm’s task to show how lack of charm can lead […]
‘Sonny Liston Was A Friend of Mine’What challenges face the tough guy at the millennium? Same old, same old. Thom Jones’s tired men are boxers and grunts, mentally unstable and of […]
‘The Orchid Thief’John Laroche, the central character in Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief (Random House; $25), is not so much orchidaceous as obsessive. He’d had s […]
In Brief: ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’It’s not at all hard to imagine the movie version of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary, the serialized newspaper spoof of Pride and Prejudi […]
In Brief: ‘Cold New World’Cold New World (Random House; $26) is better read as a character study of the nature of family than as a political statement. To be polite, you’ […]
Shorts: ‘The Knife Thrower’Steven Millhauser’s new story collection, The Knife Thrower (Crown; $22), contains the prototypes for his Pulitzer-winning Martin Dressler: tink […]
Vestigial VirginsMariah Carey’s recent announcement that her ex-husband was her only sexual partner was merely the latest in a string of such revelations from fa […]
‘Bunny Modern’For a review of David Bowman’s Bunny Modern (Little, Brown; $21.95) to avoid the words pistol-packing nanny would be an insult to the spirit of […]
‘Animal Husbandry’If you are female, under 30, working in the New York media, and have been or expect to be dumped, Laura Zigman’s Animal Husbandry (Dial Press; $ […]
