Notes on “Camp: Notes on Fashion” | May 7, 2019
This post originally began with a 1500-word essay about camp, which I cut because literally who cares. Ninety percent of the attendees on last night’s carpet couldn’t be bothered to even read the Susan Sontag essay the entire exhibit was structured around, those who did tended to fall back…
Recent Non-Fiction
Horizon | Mar 20, 2019
I reviewed Barry Lopez’s latest book, HORIZON, at NPR.org.
A Barry Lopez book is never a quick read: “Each place on Earth goes deep.”
Of course, deftly sketched landscapes are one of his chief delights — and Horizon, suspended halfway between travelogue and memoir, offers plenty of them. But Lopez…
Mary, Queen of Scots | Dec 7, 2018
Finally putting all those hours of watching Reign to good use (I did not), I reviewed the recent reissue of Stefan Zweig’s biography of Mary, Queen of Scots at NPR.
It’s a history obsessed not with “how” but “why”; facts are presented or debated with a scholar’s enthusiasm, but often…
