Ravelstein, Is That You?

In Ravelstein , author Saul Bellow depicts the title character of his latest novel, Abe Ravelstein, as a larger-than-life bon vivant , a man with a “bald powerful head” and “finely made hands.” The publishers of the French edition of Mr. Bellow’s book have envisioned a much different Ravelstein on the cover, however, and at Read More

On the Beach with ABC’s Hamptons

The first words in The Hamptons -Barbara Kopple’s thoughtful, meandering voyage through the social weeds and fields of eastern Long Island to be broadcast June 2 and 3 at 9 p.m. as a two-part docu-mini-series on ABC-belong to an earnest, scruffy-faced local named Alec Baldwin. “I would come out here and it would have a Read More