Remember the Designers!
To the Editors: It was very encouraging to see a review of two important books dealing with opera scenography [Larry Wolff, “Phantasms of the Opera,” NYR,...
Ravenna Between East and West
“Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice,” Marco Polo says to Kublai Khan in Invisible Cities (1972), Italo Calvino’s reimagining of...
Ravenna Between East and West
“Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice,” Marco Polo says to Kublai Khan in Invisible Cities (1972), Italo Calvino’s reimagining of...
Deft Enough?
To the Editors: I was taken aback by the remark in Michael Kazin’s otherwise excellent review [“Ending the Kennedy Romance,” NYR, May 27] that “[Kennedy’s] only...
Death Drives
In the spring of 2020, as the pandemic took hold and people across the country started staying home from work and school, car traffic across the...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for July 1, 2021
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $1.99 Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West Get This Deal $1.99 Thirteen Doorways, Wolves...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for July 1, 2021
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $1.99 Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West Get This Deal $1.99 Thirteen Doorways, Wolves...
Why Doctors Like Me Need to Read Chronic Illness Memoirs
On my easiest days as a gastroenterologist, the work makes exquisite sense. Maybe a woman comes back to my office just to say thanks, those antibiotics...
Rivka Galchen on the Particular Horrors of Actual Witch Hunts
Katharina Kepler is a witch, or so her neighbors think. She’s also the mother of brilliant Johannes, mathematician, and author of the planetary laws of motion...
