Like his great predecessor Sir Walter Scott, another dreamer, Stevenson was excluded from the ranks by disability. His fragile frame would have horrified any commanding officer. (In Scott’s case, it ...
By 1920 the sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the founder of the Whitney Museum and a close friend of Cushing, garnered ...
Its lead architect is James McCrery II, a seasoned practitioner who began as a modernist working for Peter Eisenman but ...
T he advent of Zohran Mamdani reminds us that we have written about the death and rebirth of socialism many times over the ...
The Sound of Sleat was reissued in 2023. Its power and acuity have only augmented since its original publishing by Picador ...
On Designing the American Century: The Public Landscapes of Clarke and Rapuano, 1915–1965, by Thomas J. Campanella.
On Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World, by Sudhir Hazareesingh.
A life of Stefan Zweig,” by Rüdiger Görner.
William Butterfield and His Times,” by Nicholas Olsberg.
James Bowman on the media’s marriage to the Democratic Party.
Central European Emigres and American Modern Design, 1910–1940,” by Jewel Stern and Christopher Long ...
Dance benefited from an extensive architectural training. The fifth and youngest son of the mason-turned-architect George ...