Alaïa at work, from Joe's Film   Back in March, stylist Joe McKenna posted a beautiful little documentary, "Joe's Film,...

Cecil Taylor Today is pianist and composer Cecil Taylor 's 86th birthday. One of the true originals of late 20th century American m...

Chester Himes (1909-1984) "Chester Himes arrived in Paris on April 11, 1953, with a broken toe, the result of another pre-departur...

Over the last few months the J. P. Morgan Library  in New York  mounted three shows, each of which was worth the price of admission. Rather...

Whenever I think of Charles Baudelaire 's The Flowers of Evil (Les fleurs du mal ), which rattled Francophone poetry when it initially a...

One of the things I love about the Internet, at least as it now exists, which is to say before it is walled off into privatized, unaffordab...

During an overseas trip a few years ago, I picked up several books, by Erik Remès, Nicolas Pages, Djallil Djellad, and Michel Zumkir, which ...