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The Show Can’t Go On
Funding shifts at three of the largest philanthropic foundations have brought turbulence and uncertainty to the intricate New York support system for the performing arts. Source link
“Drop Dead City” Spotlights a Lost Era of Liberal Government
At a time when the very function of government is being destroyed from within, an extraordinary historical documentary, “Drop Dead City,” puts the workings and responsibilities of government front...
Renzo Piano’s Light Touch
The world-renowned architect Renzo Piano grew up in Italy watching his father, a local builder, work on construction sites, and he was fascinated by his father’s gravitation toward cumbersome...
The Best Books We Read This Week
Our editors and critics review notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Source link
Briefly Noted Book Reviews
Crumb, by Dan Nadel (Scribner). In this diligently researched biography, the graphic novel finds its forebear in the cartoonist Robert Crumb. The book chronicles Crumb’s aberrant life and career,...
The Quest to Build a Perfect Protein Bar
In the past seventy-five years in America, the nutritional bar has gone from niche to mainstream. In the fifties, Bob Hoffman, of York, Pennsylvania, known as “the father of...
How Much Should You Know About Your Child Before He’s Born?
When the writer Amanda Hess was twenty-nine weeks pregnant with her first child, her doctor, looking at an ultrasound, “saw something he did not like.” He suspected a rare...
Can “The Last of Us” Outlive Its Antihero?
On Sunday night, the post-apocalyptic drama “The Last of Us” had its grandest chapter to date. After the events of the first season, the HBO series’ dual protagonists—Joel (Pedro...
Who Wants a Second Helping of “The Wedding Banquet”?
It takes a while for “The Wedding Banquet,” Ang Lee’s 1993 hit romantic comedy, to get to the big event of the title, but it’s worth the wait. The...
Pictures from Where the Senses Encounter the World
Against this cultural backdrop, Cig Harvey’s work captures a lesser-understood—or even displaced—beauty. While others take photographs, Harvey, I’m convinced, takes something else. This “something else” can be defined by...
