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.
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?
This weekend at the DBR: Tessa Hadley, Marie-Antoinette, Woody Allen — and a new way with pork chops.
Today at the DBR: Snips of books by Tessa Hadley and Amor Towles.
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.
This weekend at the DBR: Summer hours, a super dinner on the impromptu, and the delights of reading Diana Athill.
Today at the DBR: Passages from books by Wilkie Collins, E H Carr, Diana Athill, and Colm Tóibín.
Today at the DBR: Who has the time? (For television, that is.)
Today at the DBR: New cockamamie ideas for the holiday.
Today at the DBR: TED and my discontents.
Today at the DBR: Off to the doctor, wondering when health care reform will get serious.
This weekend at the DBR: A French salad, a tight spot in a French bistro, and a novel by Colm Tóibín with nothing at all French in it.
This week’s CommonplaceDBR: Milton/Barnum; Taylor; Tóibín.
Today at the DBR: Move Auer Way: it is the vagueness of my childhood recollections that is the most authentic thing about them.
Today at the DBR: Kwasi Kwarteng’s Ghosts of Empire, a book with important lessons for Americans that have nothing to do with empire.
Today at the DBR: Felix Salmon’s thoughts about blogging — easier said than done, in my experience. Also a few words about EH Carr’s lectures, What Is History?
Today at the DBR: No fewer than five stories from yesterday’s Times caught my attention.