The Transom hasn’t caught up with Tatler–arguably the world’s greatest magazine–in a while. In the November issue, we find the stunning story of Cindy Bilton, who lives at a “Palladian mansion” called Croome Court, in Worcestershire. (Its walled garden was the first to be designed by Lancelot “Capability” Brown. Ms. Bilton’s husband, Lawrence, would like Read More
Some Orthodox Jewish bloggers are buzzing over an article in the Five Towns Jewish Times, (no link available), which recounts a meeting between Hillary and a group of constituents at Long Island’s Temple Beth Sholom:
Lester Henner, a Lawrence resident and former president of Congregation Beth Sholom, asked Clinton why she voted against the appointment Read More
The Lawrence decision has come and gone, and it is now legal in Texas to commit homosexual sodomy-not because the electorate that twice bestowed the governorship on George W. Bush decided this was enlightened social policy, but because the Supreme Court found that the Constitution would have it so. When will gay marriage come to Read More
The Captain was walking on 42nd Street. He was barefoot. I took him back to my apartment, and he took a shower. Then I gave him some money, as usual.
Another time I saw him asleep on a piece of cardboard near the Plaza Hotel. He jumped up and walked with me for a Read More
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton , by Jane Smiley. Knopf, 452 pages, $26.
The Civil War rages everywhere. There’s Cold Mountain and Cloudsplitter , Russell Banks’ huge novel about John Brown, and Jacob’s Ladder , by Donald McCaig, an earnest tome subtitled “A Story of Virginia During the War”–no need to ask Read More
