The early New York intellectuals have written so much about themselves, and so many others have written about them, that it seems superfluous to sketch out who they were, where they came from, and which issues most engaged them. It …
One of the great canonical shifts of recent decades has been the enthusiastic rediscovery of earlier American painting. Thanks to the success of the abstract expressionists after the war, Americans began to realize that they too had a world-class art, …
I was doing some research at the Library of Congress, going through crime films of the 1940s for an article on that distinctive American genre, the film noir. This was still the era of the great studios, which could simulate …
