{"id":110767,"date":"2017-05-11T08:59:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T12:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=110767"},"modified":"2017-05-11T11:17:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T15:17:27","slug":"make-something-up-about-agatha-christie-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/11\/make-something-up-about-agatha-christie-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Something Up About Agatha Christie, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_110768\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/81mtapijsfl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110768\" class=\"wp-image-110768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/81mtapijsfl.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/81mtapijsfl.jpg 1399w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/81mtapijsfl-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/81mtapijsfl-768x588.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/81mtapijsfl-1024x784.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-110768\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the cover of <i>A Talent for Murder<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 1926, Agatha Christie went missing\u2014she turned up at a hotel ten days later with a case of amnesia. Her disappearance has never been properly explained, and you know how people are about explanations: they\u2019ve gotta have \u2019em. In the absence of facts, they\u2019ll just as soon make something up. And so it went with Christie\u2014as Andrew Wilson writes, all sorts of wacky theories about her were aired as \u201cnews,\u201d and even today people continue to postulate: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/booksblog\/2017\/may\/10\/fake-news-about-agatha-christie-is-nothing-new-but-its-not-drying-up?utm_source=Publishers+Weekly&amp;utm_campaign=65cbbf97cd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_10&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_0bb2959cbb-65cbbf97cd-305316541\" target=\"_blank\">Newspapers were fascinated by the idea that her husband Archie Christie might have killed the author so he could marry his mistress, Nancy Neele<\/a>. But those ten days in 1926 were in effect a news vacuum. Despite an extensive search of the Surrey Downs and the dredging of nearby pools, the police discovered precious few clues, let alone a body\u2014so journalists began to manufacture news of their own. The <em>Daily Sketch<\/em> claimed that it had employed the services of a medium, whose spirit guide was Maisie, a \u2018twelve-year-old African girl, tribe unknown.\u2019 \u2018As soon as the medium went into a trance Maisie took command,\u2019 the paper reported. \u2018Sensational claims were made by the medium, who afterwards described Mrs Christie\u2019s fate as a tragedy almost too terrible to speak about.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Christian Lorentzen weighs in on \u201cFormentera Storyline,\u201d the photo-novella in our Spring issue: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2017\/05\/grantas-best-young-american-novelists-one-by-one.html\" target=\"_blank\">Journals like <em>The\u00a0Paris Review\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>NOON\u00a0<\/em>have risked their pages on unlisted unknowns<\/a> (who prove that publicity isn\u2019t the oxygen that keeps fiction alive). It was in one of those magazines that, to my mind, the knockout discovery of 2017 appeared: \u2018Formentera Storyline,\u2019 by Jean-Ren\u00e9 \u00c9tienne and Lola Raban-Oliva, a \u2018photo-novella\u2019 in the Spring issue of <em>The\u00a0Paris Review<\/em>, about a Spanish-island group vacation that devolves across 150 pages\u2014most of which feature a banal photo from a Mediterranean villa (e.g., the washing machine) and a deadpan sentence or two\u2014from Pilates and talk therapy into druggy chaos and bad Instagram behavior. All told, a party where everybody stays too long. It\u2019s funny, sly, and very much of the Fyre Festival moment.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sarah Archer can\u2019t stop looking at <em>McMansion Hell<\/em>, a blog by Kate Wagner that keeps very close tabs on the aesthetic sins of cookie-cutter developers: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/376182\/the-worst-mcmansion-sins-from-useless-pilasters-to-hellish-transom-windows\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>McMansion Hell<\/em> is like a snarky DSM-IV for all that ails contemporary over-building in suburban developments, with a particular focus on the visual language of the odd houses it profiles<\/a>. Though a quick read can give the impression that the blog is about taste in a general sense, Wagner is at heart an architectural grammar scold: She hates ugly chandeliers, but what really fuels the ire of <em>McMansion Hell<\/em> is the misuse and decontextualization of elements that are supposed to carry architectural meaning \u2026 \u2018The great irony of McMansions is it\u2019s all about using architectural symbolism and class symbolism but expressing it in the least expensive way possible,\u2019 Wagner says. \u2018Take the tall entryway\u2014the \u201clawyer foyer.\u201d This is a design trope borrowed from institutions of power, especially banks, but it\u2019s expressed with foam columns and cheap veneer.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>While we\u2019re talking architecture: if you\u2019re getting rich from it, you\u2019re probably doing it wrong. Thomas de Monchaux writes, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nplusonemag.com\/online-only\/online-only\/have-you-ever-had-an-intense-experience-of-mystical-communion-with-the-universe-life-god-etc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prominent architects, from Palladio to Mies, were sons of stonemasons who jumped up socially thanks to gentleman patrons<\/a>. The class ambiguity persists to this day; the architecture studios I teach are full of people who are the first in their families to enter any of the professions. Or are the opposite: would-be bohemian\u00a0<em>artiste\u00a0<\/em>children of first-generation professionals who have compromised with their elders. These exchanges of capital and class, style and status, are complicated: ever since the upstart Medici family employed Giorgio Vasari to put up pageants and palaces to substitute for pedigree, the ornamental company of architects\u2014though themselves only tradesmen and servants\u2014has conferred a touch of the very class to which architects also aspire. The slow and resource-rich making of buildings is impossible without the patronage of invested clients. Architecture, like certain kinds of filmmaking, is an art of spending a lot of other people\u2019s money:\u00a0<em>a successful architect<\/em>, said the teacher of the single business class my design school obliged me to take,\u00a0<em>should be the poorest person in any room.<\/em>\u00a0Architects, relieved just to build, work for a tiny fractional fee of projects\u2019 construction costs. And, pleased to imagine themselves worldly, they work without managers and agents. The hours are long. The pay is bad.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And in case we\u2019re getting too lofty, here\u2019s Yo Zushi with your periodic reminder that it\u2019s okay to be a philistine: \u201c<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/observations\/2017\/05\/defence-philistinism\" target=\"_blank\">Avatar<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/observations\/2017\/05\/defence-philistinism\" target=\"_blank\">,<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/observations\/2017\/05\/defence-philistinism\" target=\"_blank\"><em> Titanic<\/em>,<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/observations\/2017\/05\/defence-philistinism\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Star Wars: The\u00a0Force Awakens<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/observations\/2017\/05\/defence-philistinism\" target=\"_blank\">,<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/observations\/2017\/05\/defence-philistinism\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Jurassic World<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/observations\/2017\/05\/defence-philistinism\" target=\"_blank\">,<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/observations\/2017\/05\/defence-philistinism\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/observations\/2017\/05\/defence-philistinism\">and<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/observations\/2017\/05\/defence-philistinism\"> The Avengers<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/observations\/2017\/05\/defence-philistinism\" target=\"_blank\">: these are the most profitable films of all time, and none is canonical in any meaningful sense<\/a>. They are, to be frank, dumb and devoid of complexity yet millions of people love them. Critics may howl when something deemed trashy captures the public imagination\u2014for instance, the music of Ed Sheeran, who recently topped the charts with his album <em>Divide<\/em>, despite warnings from reviewers about its \u2018flagrant sense of scheming\u2019 and \u2018deeply uncool whiteness\u2019\u2014but our relationship with culture is a personal matter. There\u2019s no shame in loving what a bunch of journalists have decided is a bit rubbish.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: why Agatha Christie is a magnet for fake news, why architects shouldn\u2019t get rich, and why it\u2019s okay to be a philistine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[6567,13978,1657,25059,14304,71,28784,27749,28786,28785,9685,28787,28788],"class_list":["post-110767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-agatha-christie","tag-architects","tag-architecture","tag-disappearance","tag-fake-news","tag-fiction","tag-formentera-storyline","tag-jean-rene-etienne","tag-kate-wagner","tag-mcmansion-hell","tag-media","tag-philistines","tag-pop"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- 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