In Lost Buildings, Jonathan Glancey compiles structures from ancient times to present day, some once real and some only imagined, that fell to war, commerce, natural disaster, or “fickle” architectural fashion. Buildings generally don’t succumb to old age, Glancey writes.
On Friday night at MOCA, James A. Morone will visit Zocalo to discuss why the healthcare debate is so nasty. (Reserve a seat here, if you haven’t already.) Healthcare reform has vexed most every president since Harry Truman, as Morone, author of The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office
by Allison Benis White
Never mind eternity. The moment before smoke withers it appears animal. A gray back turned above a white billowed skirt and the charcoal circle fallen around her feet.
The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters
by Richard Bernstein
—Reviewed by Shahnaz Habib
Richard Bernstein’s The East, The West, and Sex is a swashbuckling, bodice-ripping romance in which a powerful white male called West meets a mysterious, submissive woman called East. They have pages and pages of forbidden sex.
The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox
by John Freeman
—Reviewed by Angilee Shah
It is not particularly surprising that a ubiquitous literary critic finds our growing e-mail culture a soul crushing experience. John Freeman was a freelance writer before becoming the editor of Granta, the century-old literary magazine….
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