Tag: Noted
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Briefly Noted Book Reviews | The New Yorker
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Knife, by Salman Rushdie (Random House). In August, 2022, more than thirty years after the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa ordering the killing of Salman Rushdie, an assassin came running at him. The man stabbed Rushdie as he was addressing an audience in Chautauqua, New York, and kept on doing so for nearly half…
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Briefly Noted Book Reviews | The New Yorker
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The Limits, by Nell Freudenberger (Knopf). Set partly in New York City and partly in French Polynesia, this novel follows a family through the distress of 2020. Stephen, an overworked cardiologist, resides in New York with his new wife, who is pregnant. His ex-wife, Nathalie, a scientist, lives in Tahiti, where she studies deepwater-coral bleaching.…
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Briefly Noted Book Reviews | The New Yorker
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Ours, by Phillip B. Williams (Viking). In this ambitious début novel, a Harriet Tubman figure possessed of supernatural abilities founds a town in Missouri, whose first inhabitants she has rescued from slavery. Magically concealed from the outside world, the community is ostensibly a haven, yet the weight of its inhabitants’ pasts and the confines of…
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Briefly Noted Book Reviews | The New Yorker
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Held, by Anne Michaels (Knopf). This episodic, philosophical novel orbits a group of loosely connected characters living between 1917 and 2025. It begins in France, during the First World War, with a British soldier lying on the ground after an explosion. We follow him home to North Yorkshire, where he works as a portrait photographer…
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Noted Portland architect has died at age 59
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Krause was a principal and board member of Mackenzie, a large architecture and engineering design firm in Portland. Source link
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Hilltop Phoenix Home Designed By Noted Beverly Hills Architect Hits The Market At $4.25 Million
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The midcentury modern-style home at 7550 North 21st Place in Phoenix, Arizona, was designed by … [+] Beverly Hills architect Arthur Froelich, who was known for designing racetracks. RETSY Beverly Hills architect Arthur Froelich designed racetracks. Phoenix businessman Herbert Owens managed a few racetracks during his wide-ranging career. The two came together for a novel…
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Briefly Noted Book Reviews | The New Yorker
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Picasso the Foreigner, by Annie Cohen-Solal, translated from the French by Sam Taylor (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Born in Málaga, Spain, in 1882, Pablo Picasso settled in France in 1904. Cohen-Solal, a cultural historian, draws on dossiers found in French police archives, which include interrogation transcripts, rent receipts, and other material, to document the surveillance…
