My father, he’s an enthusiast. When he likes something, he really likes it. A little over a year ago, while watching Shrek with his youngest grandson, he discovered Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” (sung in that instance by Rufus Wainwright). Shortly after, he bought himself the soundtrack, and then he sought out every imaginable Leonard Cohen version Read More
When the electric blanket switched off in late-August and we had some days that were still warm, but clear and invigorating, my wife and I simultaneously had the same thought: This is like last September; in fact, like ….
The coming anniversary lurks behind our end-of-summer pleasures, tugging our attention, like an undertow, away Read More
This new novel is several kinds of love story with multiple happy endings-but the author still makes her readers sweat.
Rhode Island Blues , by Fay Weldon. Atlantic Monthly Press, 325 pages, $24.
Critics and readers alike tend to put Fay Weldon’s fiction in a box. “Barbed,” “wicked,” “enraged,” “unsparing,” “iconoclastic”-this litany of terms Read More
Scopa is one of the strangest restaurants I have been to recently. It officially opened this summer in Murray Hill, which has always struck me as a lugubrious part of town but which I’ve read is now the cool place to live. There certainly were no signs of life at the address I had, 79 Read More
For a moment, when I sat down to dinner the other night at Asia de Cuba, I felt that I was back in boarding school. We were seated on high stools in the middle of a big, crowded communal table. But boarding school was never like this. To my left, as far as I could Read More
