Talisman
… “And the dreams that you’re scared to dream really might come true.” Maguire accepted the applause from his audience of one. He brought his thumb and forefinger—the … THE WEST Maguire spent just under $4,000 on the ad, which also offered a “$$$ CASH REWARD $$$” that he says could have …
Contributor
… Bucket Fell” appeared in “Best Short Stories of 1937.” He died in March of 2008. Leonard Rapport …
Essays
… it deeply, and in adopting the Angeleno constitution I’ve come to embrace an abiding concern with appearances. I don’t … today’s best-known architect, Frank Gehry, who has studied Lautner’s work closely, once called him “a god.” The … recent years—through architecture-fan blogs and real-estate websites such as Curbed LA; museum exhibitions; the opening …
… March A the top of his form, Tom Stoppard writes tragicomedies or comic ironies. Stoppard’s top form has given us … As a writer of the 1960’s, Stoppard in this play was also indebted to Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. Like Beckett’s …
… a Nazi internee, and special assistant to the U.S. Commandant, Berlin. Behind us was Lord Norman Foster’s big … With rafts bearing camouflage netting Berlin defenders had also changed the shoreline of some of the city’s lakes. As … new shows on the surface, and the old concourse is becoming a huge mall. Nearby, a further part of an invisible …
… the human spirit will be set free so that every man may become an Aristotle (Marx) and even nature itself will be … from his purview; but no one can master all of these materials, so that most of Paradise Preserved —particularly its … Hardy makes Tess a wayfarer whose every change of place embodies a further unwitting declension from a paradise …