On May 5th, Rob Verchick was named a member of Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s 2023–2024 class of fellows, a cohort whose projects contend with the urgent, the beautiful, and the vast: from reckoning with the challenges of climate change to creating digital models of iconic Italian violins to detecting distant galaxies.
On this episode of The Colin McEnroe Show, the author speaks about Dr. Martin Couney, the savior of thousands of infants in a Coney Island side show.
Ten Academy Awards nominations and one win for The Favorite drove a massive increase in sales of Anne Somerset’s biography Queen Anne.
“Nostalgia can be a sweet poison, but old traditions like Charles’ make New York worth living in.”
“…a highly readable account of one of the most compelling and consequential relationships in black literary history…”
We engaged the design services of Francoise Guyaux of Elephant, having seen her work on a number of sites we liked because of their elegant and responsive designs.
WF: Songwriter Jimmy Webb told me about a comment he heard from Joni Mitchell: “We used to have lyricists, we used to have composers, we used
On his really, really excellent jazz blog, Marc Myers offers up the first part of a two-part interview with Will Friedwald about his new book, A Biographical