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Meeting Joan Didion
Each Sunday, we would walk down Lexington together, the conversation taking the tempo of our steps: slow, meditative, purposeful. She’d always be in immediate need of a coffee, so we would head for our...
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Another Day, Another Doll Hero
H. Schönhauser, Mädchen mit Puppe (Girl with Doll), 1904. Yesterday, after posting about the Edison Talking Doll, I was wracked with guilt. I could not believe that I, a lifelong defender of dolls, had...
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A Maker of Mirrors
Richard Fariña’s Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me turns fifty. Mimi and Richard Fariña, at the Newport Folk Festival in July 1965. Photo: David Gahr I am gazing, as I write, at a...
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Saint of Saints
Elena Passarello’s column is about famous animals from history. This week: Barry the Saint Bernard. Design by Kristen Radtke. From the day he was born, before he was given his name or opened his...
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