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When Hollywood Was Hip and How It Got That Way

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One major virtue of the film historian Foster Hirsch’s teeming new book, “Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties,” is to bring the output of this extraordinary decade back into the…

Jorge Colombo’s “Astor Place”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In a city as densely constructed as New York, open plazas and courtyards create havens of space—places to gather, to people-watch. And some public art works, like Tony Rosenthal’s “Alamo,” anchor…

Killer Carbonara, Straight from the Source

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. If you’ve ever been a tourist in Rome,…

Jeanette Winterson Has No Idea What Happens Next

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Jeanette Winterson burst onto the literary scene in 1985 with the publication of her début novel, “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit,” a fictional “retelling” of her childhood in a working-class…

My Grandmother and the Canine Detective

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story My grandmother, who is ninety-two, has moved three times in her life. She was born in a small town in the province of Shandong, China, and, when she was twenty-three, she…

Многолетние цветы: наслаждение красотой долгие годы

Цветы, безусловно – одно из самых нежных и восхитительных проявлений природы. Но, если вы хотите, чтобы ваш сад или дом был всегда украшен яркими красками, многолетние цветы могут стать вашим надежным спутником. Эти растения обладают рядом преимуществ, а покупка многолетних…

These People Used to Live Here?

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Tony Notarberardino, a photographer from Melbourne, first arrived at the Chelsea Hotel in 1994. He was in his mid-thirties, and he had lived in Paris and London before deciding to try…

The Visual Power of Black Rest

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “When the psychohistory of a people is marked by ongoing loss, when entire histories are denied, hidden, erased, documentation can become an obsession,” bell hooks writes in her book “Art on…