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 ImaginedMay 04, 2012 After finishing a series of photographs, Jed Martin feels like he never wants |
Cultural Caviar
Of Oil and Oil PaintsJanuary 20, 2012 The de Kooning show just closed at MoMA, and I just finished reading The Quest: |
Lit Crit
The Year Is Almost Over—Is the World?December 30, 2011 Things aren’t looking too good these days, says Slavoj Zizek in his latest |
Cultural Caviar
Hanging by a ThreadDecember 08, 2011 In Miami Beach on Monday morning, the convention center was strewn with |
Lit Crit
From Black Robes to White CoatsNovember 30, 2011 I just drove to Kansas and back, 2600 miles listening to the radio and |
Lit Crit
The Most Brutal SpeciesNovember 06, 2011 David Grossman. To the End of the Land. Vintage (reprint edition), 2011. |
Cultural Caviar
What is and What Doesn’t Have to BeSeptember 13, 2011 On Lake Geneva I float, looking at France across the water, where the grass is |
Commerce
Stock Characters and Stock PricesSeptember 04, 2011 On the blue Mediterranean I float, reading: It’s only now that we realize |
Apocalypse Now
Of Drama and DrachmasAugust 25, 2011 On the blue Aegean I float, reading: Greek cities were at least for a while |
Trash
The Effluent SocietyAugust 02, 2011 It is summer in the city and the smell of trash rises from the hot |
Lit Crit
Of Confucius and ConfusionJuly 20, 2011 In his new book On China, Henry Kissinger looks at what makes China what it is. |
Lit Crit
The Freedom to Be MiddlingJuly 05, 2011 Freedom by Jonathan Franzen came out last year, but since it has been called |
Fashion
Objets d′Art: Nothing More Than ObjetsJune 14, 2011 I usually go to art shows to look at fashion, but last week I went to a fashion |
Lit Crit
Of Novels and Novelty ActsMay 24, 2011 According to reviewers, Jennifer Egan’s novel A Visit From the Goon Squad is |
Lit Crit
Literature’s Most Influential HussyMay 05, 2011 She lives on credit and lusts after entertainment, whether emotional or |
Lit Crit
Donald Rumsfeld: Known, Unknown, and Better Left UnsaidApril 18, 2011 Nixon in China, John Adams’s opera based on Richard Nixon’s |
Cultural Caviar
Gauche Contre Droite: The Lévy-Houellebecq LettersApril 06, 2011 Last week we nostalgically suggested that culturally, things might have been |
Cultural Caviar
Fran Lebowitz is Always RightMarch 23, 2011 Fran Lebowitz doesn’t write anymore. Does it have something to do with having |
Cultural Caviar
Art: Scene and UnseenMarch 17, 2011 Thursday night is opening night at the Chelsea galleries in New York. But, an |
Cultural Caviar
Bernhard the Happy NihilistMarch 04, 2011 “You must come visit us in Vienna,” said Mrs H. as we lunched at |