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Woman invisibility #1 : The thing about Gabriele Münter’s pictures… [By Tracy Danison]
“À l’écoute (Portrait de Jawlensky)” (1909),Gabriele Münter. Photo© Adagp, Paris, 2025 The thing about Gabriele Münter’s pictures is they reach out and grab my eye. And her expressionism is to her time’s Expressionism what…
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Charlie Simic and the “Great Poets’ brawl of ’68”
Charles Simic files this report in the NY Review of Books blog. <<Back at Louis Simpson’s house in Stony Brook, during the farewell party on the last night of the conference, a fight broke out. People were…
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There’s a certain Slant of light [by Emily Dickinson]
There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons – That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes – Heavenly Hurt, it gives us – We can find no scar, But internal difference –…
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Great lyrics: Frank Loesser, “They’re Either Too Young or Too Old”
<< This sheet music is for the song “They're Either Too Young or Too Old,” from the film Thank Your Lucky Stars. The music was written by Frank Loesser and composed by Arthur Schwartz,…
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“That Harp You Play So Well” [by Shannon Doyne]
from The New York Times Poetry Pairing | ‘That Harp You Play So Well’ By Shannon Doyne May 13, 2016 7:09 am Credit Peter Arkle In this, our last Poetry Pairing for the school year,…
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Freud Quiz No. 32: Willie Mays weighs in
Heartfelt happy birthday wishes to the late Willie Mays born today, on May 6, 1931, echoing the birthday of Sigmund Schlomo Freud on May 6, 1856. The fact that the father of psychoanalysis and…
