California
Subway: The 222 sidewalk markers removed during Metro Red Line construction are reset, much to the delight of tourists and relieved local businesspeople.
March 17, 1998
Movies
Authorized biopics are rarely the most juicy or revealing films.
April 22, 2014
David Foster Wallace movie: Can it overcome family objections?
Books
Wallace Stevens: The Later Years, 1923-1955 by Joan Richardson (Morrow/Beech Tree Books: $24.95, 544 pages) “Oh, blessed rage for order . . . / The maker’s rage to order words of the sea. . . .”
Oct. 12, 1988
The legend of Wallace Stevens’ mutually exclusive lives as poet and insurance lawyer has become such a standard approach to commenting on his poetry that one resists giving it up.
Oct. 13, 1985
Awards
The actor taps more into his own life -- as a partner, a parent and a family man -- to step into his director’s life.
Jan. 4, 2023
The house was quiet and the world was calm.
Feb. 7, 1999
Entertainment & Arts
COMMISSIONS: Forty-two American composers and five librettists will benefit from the latest round of grants just announced by the ongoing Meet the Composer/Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest commissioning program.
Oct. 22, 1995
Last year was a good one for 87-year-old Vermont poet Ruth Stone.
Jan. 5, 2003
Literary anecdotes abound with traded rhetorical punches; a celebrated exchange in American literature is that between Ernest Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald, the latter observing (as he had at the opening of his wonderful story “The Rich Boy”) that the very rich are different from us, and Hemingway presumably winning the two-blow bout by his debunking, “Yes, they have more money.”
Nov. 16, 1997