Molly Young

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Molly Young

Now A Turbulent Road Trip to Manhood, Loaded Gun in Tow Two teenage boys set out north with few plans and plenty of frustrations in Vijay Khurana’s novel, “The Passenger Seat.” THE PASSENGER SEAT, by Vijay Khurana “The Passenger Seat,” Vijay Khurana’s unsettling and powerful debut novel, follows two teenagers on the fragile cusp of manhood in a Canadian … Now Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Aims to ‘Write a Wrong’ in ‘Dream Count’ In her first novel since “Americanah,” she draws on a real-life...

2 months ago | businessandamerica.com | Molly Young

A benign quirk of humanity is that we are delighted by things designed to look like other things. A bed shaped like a swan. A sauna shaped like a garlic bulb. A toilet brush shaped like a cherry. The designer Elsa Schiaparelli made fashion history with her acts of surreal mimicry, creating buttons in the form of crickets, a compact that looks like a rotary phone dial, a belt buckle of manicured hands. The trick is hardly new.

2 months ago | news.nestia.com | Molly Young

Image Credit...The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA, via Art Resource, NY By Molly Young Dear readers,If the retail price of a book were pegged to the number of high-quality ideas it contained, the two books below would sell for downright goofy sums. And by the same logic, a book that contained zero ideas or — worse — lazy or unsupported ones would owe the reader money for squandered time. This is my platform. Vote Molly for president.

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Molly Young

Which Are the Best Houseplants for Releasing Oxygen? 7 Picks That Will Bring a Sense of Freshness to Your HomeThe love for houseplants keeps growing and growing and it's no surprise-as the benefits extend far beyond the aesthetics. The best houseplants for …

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Molly Young

7 hours agoBefore He Formed Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page Played a Prom in OhioA new documentary about the band’s early days offers a rich backdrop to an unlikely performance of a star on the rise. Back in 2021, I wrote an essay about the great musicians who, surprisingly, had performed at my high school, in Kansas City, in the nineteen-sixties: the Crystals, the Drifters, …NowFail, Caesar!“Remember, I can do whatever I want to whomever I want.” It sounds like President Trump, to the world.