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I didn\u2019t think I would ever read another book about Henry James. But here I am, three quarters of the way through Michael Gorra\u2019s Portrait of a Novel<\/em><\/a>, a book-length study\u2014or really, essay\u2014on The Portrait of a Lady<\/em>. It reads like an old-fashioned work of belles lettres, combining biography, travelogue, and literary history (plus a good deal of helpful synopsis) to explain how and why James wrote his best-loved novel. The explanation is full of grace and deep learning lightly worn. Yet Gorra takes for granted James\u2019s homosexuality, and his sexual knowledge, as well-established facts. In this sense, it is a book of our moment, a hi-def image of the Master coming into his own. \u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The host, for some reason, was taking Instamatic pictures of his guests. It was not clear whether he was doing this in order to be able to show, at some future time, that there had been this gathering in his house. Or whether he thought of pictures in some voodoo sense. Or whether he found it difficult to talk. Or whether he was bored. Two underground celebrities\u2014one of whom had become a sensation by never generating or exhibiting a flicker of interest in anything, the other of whom was known mainly for hanging around the first\u2014were taking pictures too.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I have Lorin to thank for introducing me to Renata Adler\u2019s 1976 first novel, Speedboat<\/em><\/a>. Maybe its unconventional structure (a series of vignettes) and plotline (there isn\u2019t really one) are not for everyone. But for sheer linguistic pleasure, fierce intelligence, and a vivid picture of seventies New York, look no further. I breezed through it in a day and have been recommending it left and right with the kind of excitement I haven\u2019t felt in a long time.\u2014Sadie O. Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bruce Springsteen\u2019s music is the Staff Pick of my heart. \u201cBobby Jean\u201d and \u201cSecret Garden\u201d give tremble to the word rock<\/em>, while \u201cBorn to Run\u201d accomplishes something in music that Holden Caulfield did in literature, honestly portraying the anxiety of adolescence in a desire to escape. The New Yorker<\/em>\u2019s profile of Bruce Springsteen <\/a>is a breathtaking homage to the now sixty-two-year-old rocker, who is set to embark on yet another world tour. The piece follows a young Springsteen watching Elvis on the black-and-white telly, takes us through his years of top-forty glory and out into a political movement that gave hope to the country. The profile shows that there is still heart in the music industry\u2014even if that heart was born in Jersey. \u2014Noah Wunsch<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Suleika Jaouad was a senior at Princeton when I was a sophomore. \u00a0I didn\u2019t know her\u2014she was two years older, and intimidatingly beautiful. After graduation, she moved abroad.\u00a0Then she was diagnosed with leukemia. Since the end of last year, Suleika has been writing a column for The New York Times<\/em>\u2019s \u201cWell\u201d blog. With frank\u00a0insights and tremendous eloquence, Suleika tackles a series of tough topics, from managing pain during\u00a0chemotherapy, to navigating\u00a0relationships made complicated by cancer (for example, her brother becoming her bone-marrow donor). Her articles<\/a>, as well the series of video clips<\/a> which accompany them, offer an affecting glimpse of what it means to be a young person wrestling with cancer<\/a>. \u2014Alyssa Loh<\/strong><\/p>\n

To read Jeremiah\u2019s Vanishing New York<\/a> is to understand that New York is in the process of going extinct. Pretty much every day, a little piece of the city dies. And when it\u2019s all gone, what will be left? Starbucks and 7-Elevens.<\/a> It\u2019s awful, properly awful. Happily, the New York City Department of Records recently made their photo archive <\/a>available online, so you can experience old New York from 870,000 different high-resolution angles. It\u2019s a nice dose of nostalgia, but in the end, they are just photos, and they won\u2019t fully cure your sadness. For that, there\u2019s only true tonic: go down to the oldest bookstore in your borough and buy Up in the Old Hotel<\/em><\/a>, sit in the oldest bar you can think of, and read about the old Bowery, the taste of an oyster, \u201cthe smoky riverbank dawn, the racket the fishmongers make, the seaweedy smell, and the sight of plentifulness.\u201d New York may be going extinct, but Joseph Mitchell is forever. \u2014Arthur Holland Michel<\/strong><\/p>\n

This SodaStream commercial <\/a>is a dramatic piece of cinematic artistry that can only be compared to the work of Terence Malick at his most profound. In the words of former editor Natalie Jacoby, \u201cWhere were you when I laid SodaStream\u2019s foundation … when all the flat waters shouted for joy?\u201d \u2014S.O.S.
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