Gotham Diary:
Sweep Me to Sleep
9 August 2012
Thursday, August 9th, 2012
Today at the DBR: Marilyn Monroe — all that’s missing from The Other Boleyn Girl.
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Tremendulent
8 August 2012
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012
Today at the DBR: Language and lingering childhood in Miranda.
Gotham Diary:
Good Luck
7 August 2012
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012
Today at the DBR: David Brooks takes credit where credit is due.
Gotham Diary:
The Awful Truth
6 August 2012
Monday, August 6th, 2012
Today at the DBR: The updated screwball, happy ending of Celeste and Jesse Forever.
Gotham Diary:
The Brunetti Gang
1 August July 2012
Wednesday, August 1st, 2012
Today at the DBR: It’s the regulars in Donna Leon’s novels who bring me back for more.
Gotham Diary:
Art in the Age of Installation
30 July 2012
Monday, July 30th, 2012
Today at the DBR: Reading Donna Leon, and responding to Ross Douthat (which involved reading a bit of Leviticus).
Gotham Diary:
Who Am I?
26 July 2012
Friday, July 27th, 2012
Today at the DBR: In a world of differences.
Gotham Diary:
Taxi!
25 July 2012
Friday, July 27th, 2012
Today at the DBR: Boning up on the means of transportation.
Gotham Diary:
Fleet Street History
24 July 2012
Friday, July 27th, 2012
Today at the DBR: About that line in the sand…
Gotham Diary:
Lacrimosa
23 July 2012
Friday, July 27th, 2012
Today at the DBR: Mozart at the gateway to his fortune.
Gotham Diary:
Pleyel 1890
20 July 2012
Friday, July 27th, 2012
Today at the DBR: A very beautiful piano (in both senses), and an extract from Jane Gardam’s Crusoe’s Daughter.
Gotham Diary:
In 1937
19 July 2012
Thursday, July 19th, 2012
Today at the DBR: Civil words, we trust, about Amor Towles’s Rules of Civility, now in paper.
Gotham Diary:
Badlands
18 July 2012
Wednesday, July 18th, 2012
Today at the DBR: A few words about a very intriguing book, Paul French’s Midnight in Peking.
Gotham Diary:
Quatercentenary
17 July 2012
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012
Today at the DBR: Upon the happy acquisition of the 400th anniversary republication of the King James Bible.
Gotham Diary:
What I Call “The Élite”
16 July 2012
Monday, July 16th, 2012
Today at the DBR: How much longer can we manage in a world that nobody is willing to lead, while our business is run by mafiesque dons?
Gotham Diary:
Uplifting Inversion
12 July 2012
Thursday, July 12th, 2012
Today at the DBR: A few word about the elating new drama from Britian, Call the Midwife.
Gotham Diary:
Procedure
11 July 2012
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
Today at the DBR: No comment! (But a brief postscript.)
Gotham Diary:
Swan Songs
10 July 2012
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012
Today at the DBR: Three preposterous articles in the Times, all of them from the Sunday Review! With journalism like this, who needs print?
Gotham Diary:
Captain Kirke
9 July 2012
Monday, July 9th, 2012
Today at the DBR: Wilkie Collins’s hugely entertaining No Name.
Gotham Diary:
Fête Nationale
4 July 2012
Wednesday, July 4th, 2012
Today at the DBR: New cockamamie ideas for the holiday.