{"id":108211,"date":"2017-02-28T09:05:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T14:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=108211"},"modified":"2017-02-28T11:33:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T16:33:28","slug":"id-like-a-martini-on-the-moon-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/28\/id-like-a-martini-on-the-moon-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"America Needs Lunar Cocktails, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_108212\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/moon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108212\" class=\"wp-image-108212 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/moon.png\" width=\"780\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/moon.png 780w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/moon-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/moon-768x544.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-108212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist\u2019s rendering of the Lunar Hilton lounge. Image via the <em>Outline<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The future looks so shitty now. Sure, maybe in fifteen, twenty years we\u2019ll be able to get through airport security without taking our shoes off, or we could watch streaming high-definition video while we get an MRI. But we\u2019ve lost sight of the one advance that would really help us: building a luxury hotel on the moon. In 1967, Barron Hilton, of <em>those<\/em> Hiltons, had his eye on the prize: at a conference for the American Astronautical Society, he shared his vision. Daniel Oberhaus explains, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theoutline.com\/post\/1073\/hilton-never-ending-quest-to-build-a-hotel-in-space\" target=\"_blank\">The crown jewel of the Lunar Hilton would, of course, be its Galaxy Lounge<\/a>. \u2018If you think we are not going to have a cocktail lounge, you don\u2019t know Hilton\u2014or travelers,\u2019 Hilton quipped. In the Galaxy Lounge, lunar tourists would be able to \u2018enjoy a martini and see the stars!\u2019 Although the lounge would be underground, the guests would enjoy a view of Earth and outer space through \u2018thermopane windows.\u2019 All cocktails would be prepared by a robotic wait staff, which would only need to drop a tablet into a glass of pure ethyl alcohol and water and voila: an instant martini, Manhattan, or gin \u2026 He was, by all accounts, very serious about trying to make them a reality. \u2018I firmly believe that we are going to have Hiltons in outer space.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Writing cultural criticism, Jo Livingstone is determined to avoid the Trump trap\u2014is there really no way, she wonders, to look at art now without thinking of the executive branch? \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/140908\/defense-cultural-criticism-trumps-america\" target=\"_blank\">Painting, music, television, the visual culture of the internet, poetry: These art forms and their consumers and critics represent an aesthetic space whose boundaries are not defined by the president<\/a>. Unless we believe in and nurture this space, the critic is stuck forever explaining how this or that book is crucial reading \u2018in Trump\u2019s America.\u2019 But this type of reviewing hobbles thought, because it reduces all art to the structure of satire. It is as if Trump is a spider in the middle of a web, and every review that tethers the meaning of a pop song to his regime strengthens it. I am guilty of\u00a0this type of criticism, in very recent weeks. But I know that I write such things as an emotional defense of my own place in the culture. Nobody wants to feel useless.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sara Wheeler, bemoaning the increasing rarity of women travel writers, lists a few of her favorites from centuries past: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/feb\/28\/where-female-travel-writers-gone-sara-wheeler\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Kingsley\u00a0belonged to that tribe of tweed-skirted Victorians who battled through malarial swamps, parasols aloft, or scaled unnamed Pamirs, trailed by a retinue of exhausted factotums<\/a> \u2026 Our heroine waded through swamps for two hours at a time, up to her neck in fetid water with leeches round her neck like a frill. After falling fifteen feet into a game pit laid with twelve-inch ebony spikes, she noted, \u2018It is at these times you realize the blessing of a good thick skirt\u2019 \u2026 Another Victorian favorite of mine, Gertrude Bell, is as relevant today as she was when she reshaped the political map of the Middle East \u2026 Bell was the first female military intelligence officer \u2026 Sitting in her tent during a hailstorm, she read <em>Hamlet<\/em>, then composed a letter to Dick Doughty-Wylie, the love of her life. \u2018Princes and powers of Arabia,\u2019 Bell wrote, \u2018stepped down into their true place, and there rose up above them the human soul, conscious and answerable to itself.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In his letters, John Steinbeck had to admit that it was lonely at the top\u2014and that fame offered no solace: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2017\/02\/27\/john-steinbeck-letters-success\/\" target=\"_blank\">The loneliness and discouragement are by no means a thing that has passed<\/a>,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIn fact they seem to crowd in more than ever. Only now I can\u2019t talk to anyone much about them or even admit having them because I now possess the things that the great majority of people think are the death of loneliness and discouragement. Only they aren\u2019t. The last time I saw Chaplin (this don\u2019t repeat please but it is a part of the same thing) it was the night when the little lady [Paulette Goddard] was leaving him for good. And he said, \u2018When I get this picture opened and all the formal things done, can I please go up to your ranch and kick all the servants out and just talk a little bit quietly about how lonely and sad I am? It will be self indulgence but I\u2019d like to do it.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In Karuizawa, a tony mountain town an hour outside of Tokyo, Hanya Yanagihara admires a swath of unconventional homes: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/27\/t-magazine\/karuizawa-japan-architecture.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">The real curiosity of Karuizawa \u2026 is not its landscape nor its residents, but rather, its collection of spectacular avant-garde houses, most of them designed by prominent Japanese architects<\/a>. There is Makoto Yamaguchi\u2019s Polygon House, a quasi-Brutalist geode of distressed steel and glass that perches on a hill in a forest like an abandoned space pod; the concrete, glass and larch wood Omizubata N House by Iida Archiship Studio, whose dramatically steepled roof recalls an ancient Norse ship; TNA\u2019s Passage House, where a horizontally oriented front entryway functions as a trap door, giving visitors the sensation that the forest floor beneath\u2014over which the ring-shaped house hovers\u2014is the ground floor of the structure, and the house itself its attic. Perhaps most splendid of all is TNA\u2019s Ring House, a miniature tower deep in the forest constructed of alternating layers of wood and glass: In the evening, when the sky is dark blue and the house is lit from within, it appears as stacked slices of pure light, its bands of wood receding into the ink of the night.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: an ambitious 1960s plan for a lunar Hilton, cultural criticism under Trump, and 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