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The Old Inn in Candlelight: Sophisticated and Simple
Lafeu: ‘Twas a good lady, ’twas a good lady: we may pick a thousand salads were we light on such another herb. Clown: Indeed, sir, she was the sweet marjoram of the salad, or rather the herb of grace....
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A Sinking Lily Bart and Her Unforgiving Circle
Terence Davies’ The House of Mirth , from his own screenplay, based on the novel by Edith Wharton, is one of several end-of-year releases that has made 2000 a better movie-going year than anyone could...
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The Shame of No Shame: Fawning, Sniping in Media Land
Autumn of the Moguls: My Misadventures with the Titans, Poseurs, and Money Guys Who Mastered and Messed Up Big Media , by Michael Wolff. HarperCollins, 381 pages, $25.95. In 1980, George W.S. Trow, a...
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Gotham’s Greats Get Super-Bios
It’s a season of cliffhangers. Who will emerge as top dog in a transatlantic face-off when Don DeLillo and Ian McEwan each publish a new novel on the very same day? Will anyone come up with a better...
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Ari vs. Mata Hari
The night of April 8 is going be a big, big, BIG one for HBO. The Sopranos return (finally) for the beginning of the end of the eight-year-old series; parties will be given, volumes will be written,...
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Edith Wharton Letter Sheds Light on Mirth Mystery
Readers of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth have debated the death of its heroine, Lily Bart for decades. Did she commit suicide or die of an accidental overdose? A new letter, written by Ms. Wharton...
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The Guilted Age of Opera
On a September evening of the late aughts, Karita Mattila was singing in Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Fifty years from now, the next Edith Wharton, if she could have seen the...
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Edith Wharton and Bernard Bernenson Were Not Fans of Leonardo’s ‘Last Supper’
The work. (WikiMedia) In her new biography Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade, which was just published by the Yale University Press, Rachel Cohen offers up a nice little anecdote about the...
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Sheik to Rescue Gutenberg Museum, Basquiat Stolen in Paris, and More
Your art news roundup for October 20.
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ELLE on Earth
How a leading women's magazine ruined a once-in-a-lifetime interview with fashion legend Rei Kawakubo.
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To Do This Week: Walk NYC Suffragette Herstory and Shop for Spring Lingerie
This Eight-Day Week will put a spring in your step.
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10 Style-Packed Books That Need a Movie
Since Kirsten Dunst announced her directorial debut with the adaptation of The Bell Jar, consider some other classic movies-to-be.
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The Magnetic Fields Return With a Surreal Masterwork, ‘50 Song Memoir’
"I usually hate writing autobiographical songs, but autobiography need not be the same thing as truth."
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