Melville
A White-Line Nightmare, After the End of the World
It looks like Cormac McCarthy is wasting away. read more »
Katharine Weber On Literary/Religious Identity (and Muriel Spark)
My report on a literary evening at Makor brought another demurral, on points large and small, from Triangle author Katharine Weber:
I did not say "cramped," but crammed. My mother being raised in a Protestant identity bubble by her Protestant mother, despite being a Warburg in New York City, does signify and pertain to the question at hand, who is a Jew, how are we identified, and by whom?read more »
Ellie Ryan Blum
May 15, 2006
12:06 p.m.
5 pounds, 11 ounces
New York Presbyterian Hospital
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Sublime Army of Shadows Remembers French Resistants
Jean-Pierre Melville’s magnificent Army of Shadows (1969), from his own screenplay, based on t read more »
Sublime Army of Shadows Remembers French Resistants
Jean-Pierre Melville’s magnificent Army of Shadows (1969), from his own screenplay, based on the n read more »
Our Best Writer, Revived Again— Melville Made Whole at Last
High above the intersection of Park Avenue and 26th Street, exactly where no one will notice it, a s read more »
Our Best Writer, Revived Again- Melville Made Whole at Last
High above the intersection of Park Avenue and 26th Street, exactly where no one will notice it, a s read more »
And the Pursuit of Hustle: A Nation of Creative Con Men
Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585-1828 , by Walter A.McDougall. read more »
Glorious Wreck Nick Nolte Makes Off With The Good Thief
Neil Jordan's The Good Thief , from his own screenplay, inspired by Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob Le Fl read more »
Randy Poets Glorify Gotham, They Sing of Urban Liberation
Poems of New York , edited by Elizabeth Schmidt. Everyman's Library/Alfred A. read more »
Melville Mystery Cannot Be Stifled By New Biography
At 29, Herman Melville had a wonderful wish, that Shakespeare was alive in New York."Not that I migh read more »
I'm No Prince of Whales, But I Swam With Moby
A few months back, in the South Pacific, I met a lady named Olive from the Save the Whales movement. read more »
The Awful Truth About Hollywood and Us
Contrarian that I am, I like Hollywood movies about Hollywood. read more »
A Subway Story, Too Good to Be True
James Gray's The Yards , from a screenplay by Mr. read more »
Miracle of Moby and Memory; Improv Can't Grow Sea Legs
A funny thing happened to me on the way to the theater the other night. read more »
Another Brief and Daring Bio: Teasing, Tangled Melville Yarn
Herman Melville , by Elizabeth Hardwick. read more »
Banking on the Melville Myth and Novel Uses for Scrimshaw
The Night Inspector , by Frederick Busch. read more »
Hart Crane's Hieroglyphs: The Unmentionable Truth
The lost language of Crane: I love the sound of that phrase (its resonance indebted to the David Lea read more »












