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2 weeks ago | 
nybooks.com | Lauren Kane
Medieval monks produced ornate architectural drawings in their efforts to comprehend divine instructions. A recent book recovers their contributions to the form.
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4 weeks ago | 
nybooks.com | Lauren Kane |Daniel Mendelsohn
New translations of Homer are bound to revive millennia-old questions of authorship and ancient diction. As Daniel Mendelsohn writes in the introduction to his rendition of the Odyssey, published this April by the University of Chicago Press, the alluring paradox of the epic is that contemporary readers can come to it “with a bracing sense of déjà vu: we feel we know these narratives, we have met these characters, we recognize these themes.
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4 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Daniel Mendelsohn |Lauren Kane
The Pope Leo XIV Guide to Chicago (Including His Favorite Pizza Joint)The new pope grew up on the Southside. And he has a favorite pizza place. Overnight, Chicago was thrust into the spotlight when one of its own was …
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2 months ago | 
apollo-magazine.com | Lauren Kane
Although Caspar David Friedrich is today thought of as a painter of oil on canvas, he returned continually throughout his life to paper and ink, making sepia-toned works of precise penwork that treat delicately his great subject, the natural landscape of his native Germany. The exhibition ‘Caspar David Friedrich: Soul of Nature’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is bookended by these works on paper as part of a comprehensive survey of his career.
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2 months ago | 
nybooks.com | Lauren Kane
Jackson Howard, a senior editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, is known for his vanguard taste in both fiction and nonfiction, a taste that has brought an array of new styles and voices to the forefront of the publishing industry. At FSG, editors are hired not just for their experience but for their distinct sensibilities, and a “Jackson book” can be recognized by its blend of playfulness and depth.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
nybooks.com | Dahlia Krutkovich |Lauren Kane |Magda Teter
In our December 5 issue, Magda Teter reviews a new book ostensibly about the last decades of the Regency of Algiers and “the ties between the land and the sea and between the sea and the history of events, money, and power.” But behind that history, Teter writes, is “a story of the perception of Mediterranean Jewish traders by European and American actors, who projected their sense of superiority over and disdain for both Jews and Muslims.” Teter scrutinizes what more conventional histories...
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
fb101.com | Lauren Kane
Food & Beverage Magazine is the leading online magazine resource for the food and beverage industry with signature celebrity features and an over twenty year long valuable reputation. F&B Magazine has the eyes of the industry’s top professionals that are in search of the latest and greatest.
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May 18, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Lauren Kane |Joanna Biggs
In our May 23 issue, Joanna Biggs reviews Madonna: A Rebel Life by Mary Gabriel (whose previous biography, Ninth Street Women, took as its subject five female abstract expressionist painters in the midcentury).
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Lauren Kane |Arvin Alaigh |Xavier M. Montecel |Dorothy Fortenberry
A week or so before I was due to travel to Warsaw, my text messages were filled with photos of Poland’s Independence Day. They had all the elements of your typical national celebration: streets dense with people, flags aloft over the heads of the crowd, and what appeared to be detonated smoke bombs tinting the dusk with chalky red and white, the colors of Poland’s flag.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Lauren Kane |Arvin Alaigh |Xavier M. Montecel |Dorothy Fortenberry
A week or so before I was due to travel to Warsaw, my text messages were filled with photos of Poland’s Independence Day. They had all the elements of your typical national celebration: streets dense with people, flags aloft over the heads of the crowd, and what appeared to be detonated smoke bombs tinting the dusk with chalky red and white, the colors of Poland’s flag.
