“Injustice rules,” cries the Random House flier. No, they’re not vexed by the spreading loom of terror, the unhappy history of Kashmir or even the legal process in California (all of which figure in Shalimar the Clown). The publisher’s alarm is more local: “The Swedes won’t dare to offend Islam by giving Rushdie the Nobel Read More
“Injustice rules,” cries the Random House flier. No, they’re not vexed by the spreading loom of terror, the unhappy history of Kashmir or even the legal process in California (all of which figure in Shalimar the Clown). The publisher’s alarm is more local: “The Swedes won’t dare to offend Islam by giving Rushdie the Nobel Read More
How many opera librettos can you sit down and read just for the pleasure of it? It’s beyond dispute that behind every great opera is a great libretto, but only scholars are apt to curl up with Giovanni Francesco Busenello’s text for The Coronation of Poppea , or Lorenzo da Ponte’s for The Marriage of Read More
I am not worthy. That’s what I was thinking throughout my lunch with Sally Kempton and Betsy Carter, two of the most impressive women I know. One, Betsy, is a longtime friend; the other, Sally, a long-lost friend who, until just about the day of that lunch, had been known for two decades as Swami Read More
All about the fields, from Southampton to Montauk, pumpkins of all sizes still lie scattered. Bales of hay and pots of mums in purples, yellows and white line the highway. The skies are gray and there is a wind blowing out of the north. The ocean waves are rising, banging against the already smoothing sand. Read More
