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.
Today at the DBR: Marilyn Monroe — all that’s missing from The Other Boleyn Girl.
Today at the DBR: Language and lingering childhood in Miranda.
Today at the DBR: David Brooks takes credit where credit is due.
Today at the DBR: The updated screwball, happy ending of Celeste and Jesse Forever.
Today at the DBR: It’s the regulars in Donna Leon’s novels who bring me back for more.
Today at the DBR: Reading Donna Leon, and responding to Ross Douthat (which involved reading a bit of Leviticus).
Today at the DBR: In a world of differences.
Today at the DBR: Boning up on the means of transportation.
Today at the DBR: About that line in the sand…
Today at the DBR: Mozart at the gateway to his fortune.
Today at the DBR: A very beautiful piano (in both senses), and an extract from Jane Gardam’s Crusoe’s Daughter.
Today at the DBR: Civil words, we trust, about Amor Towles’s Rules of Civility, now in paper.
Today at the DBR: A few words about a very intriguing book, Paul French’s Midnight in Peking.
Today at the DBR: Upon the happy acquisition of the 400th anniversary republication of the King James Bible.
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?
Today at the DBR: A few word about the elating new drama from Britian, Call the Midwife.
Today at the DBR: No comment! (But a brief postscript.)
Today at the DBR: Three preposterous articles in the Times, all of them from the Sunday Review! With journalism like this, who needs print?
Today at the DBR: Wilkie Collins’s hugely entertaining No Name.
Today at the DBR: New cockamamie ideas for the holiday.