Joy Setton 
Of Franco-American nationality, Joy Setton is a professional dilettante and an amateur writer living in New York.
Cultural Caviar
Photographers, Real and ImaginedAfter finishing a series of photographs, Jed Martin feels like he never wants to take |
Cultural Caviar
Of Oil and Oil PaintsThe de Kooning show just closed at MoMA, and I just finished reading The Quest: Energy, |
Lit Crit
The Year Is Almost Over—Is the World?Things aren’t looking too good these days, says Slavoj Zizek in his latest book, |
Cultural Caviar
Hanging by a ThreadIn Miami Beach on Monday morning, the convention center was strewn with cardboard, |
Lit Crit
From Black Robes to White CoatsI just drove to Kansas and back, 2600 miles listening to the radio and pondering |
Lit Crit
The Most Brutal SpeciesDavid Grossman. To the End of the Land. Vintage (reprint edition), 2011. 672pp. Dave |
Cultural Caviar
What is and What Doesn’t Have to BeOn Lake Geneva I float, looking at France across the water, where the grass is not |
Commerce
Stock Characters and Stock PricesOn the blue Mediterranean I float, reading: It’s only now that we realize that the |
Apocalypse Now
Of Drama and DrachmasOn the blue Aegean I float, reading: Greek cities were at least for a while taken over |
Trash
The Effluent SocietyIt is summer in the city and the smell of trash rises from the hot streets. There is |
Lit Crit
Of Confucius and ConfusionIn his new book On China, Henry Kissinger looks at what makes China what it is. In his |
Lit Crit
The Freedom to Be MiddlingFreedom by Jonathan Franzen came out last year, but since it has been called the novel |
Fashion
Objets d′Art: Nothing More Than ObjetsI usually go to art shows to look at fashion, but last week I went to a fashion show to |
Lit Crit
Of Novels and Novelty ActsAccording to reviewers, Jennifer Egan’s novel A Visit From the Goon Squad is |
Lit Crit
Literature’s Most Influential HussyShe lives on credit and lusts after entertainment, whether emotional or commercial. She |
Lit Crit
Donald Rumsfeld: Known, Unknown, and Better Left UnsaidNixon in China, John Adams’s opera based on Richard Nixon’s détente-seeking 1972 |
Cultural Caviar
Gauche Contre Droite: The Lévy-Houellebecq LettersLast week we nostalgically suggested that culturally, things might have been better in |
Cultural Caviar
Fran Lebowitz is Always RightFran Lebowitz doesn’t write anymore. Does it have something to do with having known |
Cultural Caviar
Art: Scene and UnseenThursday night is opening night at the Chelsea galleries in New York. But, an art |
Cultural Caviar
Bernhard the Happy Nihilist“You must come visit us in Vienna,” said Mrs H. as we lunched at Cecconi’s in |