Julie Kavanagh traces the route that took Rudolf Nureyev from starving peasant to international star.
Chapter 13: The wind was picking up, and Dick went out to check on his boat.
“In the courtyard there was an angel of black stone, and its angel head rose above giant elephant leaves; the stark glass angel eyes,...
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A design critic reminds us that the ’70s spawned many of the values that define our society today.
“If you wanted a world that was orderly, where progress was guaranteed, the seventies were a terrible time to be alive.”
A collection of journalistic efforts spanning the life of the writer who broke the mold.
The hero of Steve Erickson’s new novel is obsessed with movies.
“On Vikar’s shaved head is tattooed the right and left lobes of his brain. One lobe is occupied by an extreme close-up of Elizabeth...
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Continue Reading ‘Zeroville’
The British novelist talks about why atheists crave atonement, his long-lost brother and Martin Amis’s beef with radical Islam.
Cartoonists take on big political themes: Ronald Reagan, Emma Goldman and Adolf Hitler — as well as social stratification and the...
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