JE SUIS la jeune fille: though I’ve never formally studied French, I’ve had that phrase stuck deep in my linguistic consciousness since childhood. So, surely, have most Americans of my generation, hearing it as we all did over and over again for years in the same television commercial. Frequently aired and never once updated, it advertised […]
Essayist, interviewer, public speaker
Notebook on Cities and Culture podcast
Videos
-
Recent Posts
- New Yorker: The cracked wisdom of Dril
- Los Angeles Review of Books: Ward Farnsworth’s guidebooks to English virtuosity and ancient philosophy
- Books on Cities: Witold Rybczynski, City Life (1995)
- New Yorker: What The Twilight Zone reveals about today’s prestige TV
- Books on Cities: Joan Didion, Miami (1987)
-
RSS feed