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From The Thoughtful Dresser: The Art of Adornment, the Pleasures of Shopping, and Why Clothes Matter Some years ago, in a restaurant in Clerkenwell, an […]
From The Thoughtful Dresser: The Art of Adornment, the Pleasures of Shopping, and Why Clothes Matter Some years ago, in a restaurant in Clerkenwell, an […]
William H. Gass, quoting Katherine Anne Porter remembering an anecdote about Tolstoy: It’s a marvelous picture. Tolstoy was merely roaring in the frenzy roused […]
Guillaume Apollinaire (from Alcools: Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)) Le pont Mirabeau Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine Et nos amours […]
From “Liste de Americains,” by Charles Dantzig, in his Encyclopedie capricieuse du tout et du rien (French Edition). Translated from the French by Lorin Stein. […]
Excerpted from Lewis H. Lapham‘s essay in Harper’s Magazine (subscription required for the whole article). I’ve tried to live every day in the present tense, […]
Excerpted from Francine Prose‘s review of Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, […]
Quotations from William Sloane Coffin Jr. Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and then defends them in the name of morality. Even if you […]
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