Wednesday, April 26, 2017

ANTICIPATING THE NEXT CHAPTER

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Dear readers, I was recently accepted into the publishing course at Columbia University in New York City, where I will be moving in June t...
Wednesday, April 19, 2017

THE QUEEN MOST LIKELY TO DAZZLE, DANCE, THEN DISAPPEAR

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Young and Damned and Fair by Gareth Russell - Simon & Schuster (2016) I don’t exactly envy any of Henry VIII’s six wives, but w...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

THE PHOTOGRAPHER MOST LIKELY TO CAPTURE THE SPARK

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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan - Mariner Books (2013) Haunting . That’s the best word to describe the photogra...
Thursday, April 6, 2017

THE COMPOSER MOST LIKELY TO ENTOMB HIMSELF IN MUSIC

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Johannes Brahms: A Biography by Jan Swafford - Vintage Books (1999) Seconding the opinion of absolutely no one, I would like to st...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

THE SPY MOST LIKELY TO RAISE QUESTIONS OF CULPABILITY

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The Man With the Poison Gun by Serhii Plokhy - Basic Books (2016) There are two things I will never tire of watching: movies from ...
Wednesday, March 8, 2017

THE AMERICAN MOST LIKELY TO CRAFT HIS OWN NATIONALITY

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How the World Moves by Peter Nabokov - Penguin Books (2016) I would like to think that I benefitted from a fairly progressive upbr...
Wednesday, March 1, 2017

THE ART COLLECTOR MOST LIKELY TO FALL IN LOVE WITH A PAINTING

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The Vanishing Velázquez by Laura Cumming - Scribner (2016) The Vanishing Velázquez by Laura Cumming is, structurally speaking, one...