Archive for 2012

Friday Commonplace:
Exploitation
10 August 2012

Friday, August 10th, 2012

Today at the DBR: Extracts from works by Janet Groth, Tom Scocca, Elizabeth Bishop and Edward Pearce.

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.

Gotham Diary:
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.

Weekend Note:
Celestial
4 August 2012

Sunday, August 5th, 2012

This weekend at the DBR: Rashida Jones rules! All I thought about was how smart her new movie is.

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.

Beachcombing:
Summer Hours
July 2012

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

This month on the Internet, through links from the DBR.

Gotham Diary:
Love My Way
31 July 2012

Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

Today at the DBR: In order to fill up the ice chest, I must download a song from long ago.

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).

Weekend Note:
Rise and Shine
28-29 July 2012

Sunday, July 29th, 2012

This weekend at the DBR: Early to bed &c. If it feels like a long weekend, that’s because Kathleen has been away for a long time.

Friday Commonplace:
Innovation
27 July 2012

Friday, July 27th, 2012

Today at the DBR: Snatches of Elizabeth Taylor, Francis Bacon, and Bruce Springsteen.

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.

Weekend Note:
Modest Proposal
21 July 2012

Friday, July 27th, 2012

This weekend at the DBR: An idea for the NRA.

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.