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Seeing Women

These two portraits are of the same woman.  Her name was Helen Brooke Taussig, and she was a famed cardiologist who did ground-breaking work in pediatric cardiac surgery.  So which one do you think has...

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Doris Lessing, Uncovered

There was something unsatisfactory about the New York Times’ front-page obit for Nobel literature laureate Doris Lessing, at least for me.  So I went back to the archives to look for the magazine piece...

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A Picasso for Jezebel

The come-on, in a brief item in the New York Times arts section:  “A Picasso for $135?  There’s a Chance.” Yeah, sure.  I would have ignored the headline except that it ran under a photo of a run-down...

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An Extraordinary Submergence

I don’t remember ordering J.M.Ledgard’s novel Submergence from the library.  I do remember getting the email that it had arrived, and wondering what it was. Then picking it up a couple of days later,...

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Pure Zen

  My copy of Peter Matthiessen’s The Snow Leopard bears the marks of a well-used life, much like the photo of him in today’s New York Times. The cover is torn and tattered, the linen boards worn and...

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Who Said It?

“Isn’t there a convention that if you don’t know the author of a quote, you can always attribute it to Churchill?” one character asks another in Zia Haider Rahman’s novel ‘In The Light of What We...

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Lightning Louie

It’s weird how a single scene from a movie can stay with you. Like this piece of American noir: A fedora-hatted gumshoe walks into a Chinese eatery. He heads for the back booth where an over-sized guy...

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Windhovering

I slow down for falcons. Falcons, eagles, hawks, cranes, herons, kestrels, all manner of large birds. If I’m on the road, I pull over, stop the car, get out, and allow myself to be entranced.  If I’m...

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Infinity Comix!

Here’s a great two-page record of my infinity talk at the Goodship Academy of Higher Education the other night, and the discussion that followed.  It was made by artist Jed Dunkerley, whose...

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On The Wall

I love this photo. My friend the art critic and Pulitzer finalist Jen Graves (yes, I’m boasting) took it last month at a preview of an exhibit at Seattle’s Frye Museum of Art.  That’s me up there on...

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