- Books: Natalie Dykstra’s “Clover Adams” review.
Born in 1843 to a wealthy, intellectual Boston family, Marian (Clover) Hooper moved in the most illustrious circles of nineteenth-century America. Henry James called her “a perfect Voltaire in petticoats”; Henry Adams married her. In Washington, she became a celebrated hostess, rode horses, and, at the age . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Books: “The Dead Republic.”
Doyle’s ninth novel, the concluding volume of a trilogy that began with “A Star Called Henry,” chronicles the return to Ireland, after almost thirty years of exile in America, of Henry Smart, a former I.R.A. assassin. The first section, in which Henry works with John Ford . . ....
- The Life of Van De Velde
Henry Van De Velde was born in Antwerp, Belgium. He was the son of a wealthy chemist, he initially studied painting....
- Joan Acocella: Hilary Mantel reconsiders the life of Thomas Cromwell.
In the Living Hall of the Frick Collection, on either side of a fireplace, there are portraits by Hans Holbein of the two most illustrious politicians of the court of Henry VIII. On the left is Sir Thomas More, Henry’s lord chancellor from 1529 to 1532, who, when . . ....
- Books: “American Egyptologist” by Jeffrey Abt, review.
Born in Illinois in 1865, James Henry Breasted turned an early interest in the ministry and a talent for languages into a remarkable career as America’s first formally trained Egyptologist. He specialized in the recording of inscriptions and wanted nothing less than “the recopying and republication of . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Joan Acocella: David Gordon’s “Dancing Henry Five.”
David Gordon has always been postmodern dance’s premier minimalist. So you could say he was almost showing off when, in 2004, he took on Shakespeare’s “Henry V”—with its massed armies, its take-charge king, its pretty princess—and made his own . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Gay Talese: Kissinger’s colleagues on “Nixon in China.”
Henry Kissinger was one of several dignitaries invited by the Metropolitan Opera’s general manager, Peter Gelb, to the final dress rehearsal, last week, of “Nixon in China,” the opera by John Adams that reënacts the historic state visit that Richard Nixon made in 1972 . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Lizzie Widdicombe: Matador tailor Justo Algaba and the Metropolitan Opera’s “Carmen.”
Justo Algaba, one of the world’s most respected matador tailors, was in town the other day from Madrid, where he has a two-story shop devoted to the production of matador outfits, called trajes de luce (“suits of light”), because of their shimmery, multicolored adornments. Algaba . . ....
- The Car Racing Pedigree and Automobile Sales
As soon as the automobile was developed towards the end of the 19th Century, the first things engineers and enthusiasts alike wanted to do was to go faster. The need for speed on four wheels was born but it took Henry Ford to bring the automobile to the masses with the Model T, launched in 1913, and using what was then state of the art mass production techniques. While the Model T hardly...
- Rolls Royce History
The Rolls Royce was conceived in 1904 over lunch in a Manchester Hotel. The meeting involved Henry Edmunds, who was an engineer; Charles Rolls, a founder member of the RAC and keen car enthusiast; and Henry Royce, who was also a successful engineer who had been making plans for a prototype car....
- The Chinese Henry Ford
Li Shufu, dubbed 'The Chinese Henry Ford' is the man responsible for the takeover of the renowned Volvo brand, by Zhejiang Geely Holding Group. Li Shufu is the chairman of the company that has just completed a $1.8 billion purchase of Volvo Cars from Ford Motor Co....
- First IVF Babies Are Born After New DNA Screen
Three babies born to two 40-year-old women in Europe are the first IVF babies born from eggs screened for chromosomal abnormalities using a fast new DNA test....
- Lizzie Widdicombe: Henry Paulson, bird-watching in Central Park.
The other day, with the now homeless Occupiers still flooding the streets downtown, railing about bailed-out bankers, Henry Paulson, the former Treasury Secretary, Goldman Sachs C.E.O., and bailout architect, was uptown, taking a nature walk in Central Park. It was a drizzly day, and Paulson showed up at the . . ....
- An Appreciation of Henry Lindlair, Early 20th Century Naturopath
In my search for answers to use alternative medicine in place of modern drugs and pharmacy I ran across the story of colorful naturopath Henry Lindlair (1862-1924). As a young man Lindlair accumulated a fortune. Although rich he was sick at 35. Diagnosed with diabetes and given just a few months to live he changed his lifestyle to nature cure....
- Julian Sands pays homage to Harold Pinter, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
In a way, Julian Sands’s unique beauty and bearing have too often obscured his importance as an actor. Born in northern England in 1958, Sands came of age as a performer after brooding bad boys like Alan Bates and Richard Harris defined England’s “angry young . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Race @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Ruthlessness of a rhetorical kind is part of the fun of David Mamet’s new play (directed by the author), his latest exercise in contrarian provocation. “Do you know what you can say? To a black man. On the subject of race?” Henry Brown (David Alan Grier), a black lawyer, says to Charles Strickland (Richard Thomas), a rich, white potential client who is accused of raping...
- 20 Under 40 Fiction Q. & A.: Yiyun Li.
Yiyun Li was featured in The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 Fiction Issue. Her story will appear later in the summer.
When were you born?
November 4, 1972.
Where?
Beijing, China.
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- The History of Automobiles Part I
The history of the automobile did not just begin with Henry Ford and the Model T, as you may believe. In fact, Henry Ford is not even regarded as the inventor of the modern automobile. A German engineer, Carl Benz, is generally considered the inventor of modern automobiles, although his invention used engines and other parts invented by numerous others who were working on the concept at...
- Meghan O’Rourke: Finding a better way to grieve.
One autumn day in 1964, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, a Swiss-born psychiatrist, was working in her garden and fretting about a lecture she had to give. Earlier that week, a mentor of hers, who taught psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, had asked her to . . ....
- Sasha Frere-Jones: The New Orleans m.c. Big Freedia.
Big Freedia is not an m.c. in the original sense of the acronym. The New Orleans musician, born Freddie Ross, is a faithful practitioner of New Orleans bounce, a thumping but fleet dance music that does not suffer wallflowers. At a Big Freedia show, she—Ross has long identified . . . (Subscription required.)...
- New Born Baby Rabbits – Fundamental Tips You Should Know
New born baby rabbits need full attention and care. Endow them with their basic needs such as proper food and a safe shelter. You must check on the mother and the infants regularly. Prevent them from acquiring any illness or infection. In the end, you will realize what new born baby rabbits can give you....
- Things to Remember Once Baby Dwarf Hamsters Are Born
When baby dwarf hamsters are born, hamster owners tend to be very curious and excited in seeing them. A lot of pet owners even want to hold these little critters as soon as they are born. Who wouldn't be eager to handle them directly when they are irresistibly cute?...
- Jill Lepore: Clarence Darrow’s unfinished work.
The day the strikers’ wives pelted the scabs with rotten eggs and a strikebreaker and Irish ex-cop named Edward Casey cracked Jimmie Morris’s skull, the governor of Wisconsin called in the National Guard from Milwaukee. By the next morning, Friday, June 24, 1898, four companies of . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Jill Lepore: Chronicling the Great Migration.
In May of 1939, Ralph Ellison, who was twenty-six at the time, asked an old man hanging out in Eddie’s Bar, on St. Nicholas Avenue near 147th Street, “Do you like living in New York City?” The man said:
Ahm in New York, but New . . ....
- Richard Brody: George Cukor’s “A Star Is Born.”
paragraph class="noindent">George Cukor’s “A Star Is Born,” from 1954—one of the greatest inside-Hollywood movies, featuring a career-crowning performance by Judy Garland—was mutilated by Warner Bros. and released with nearly half an hour slashed from the director’s . . ....
- Hilton Als: David Henry Hwang’s “Chinglish” review.
First-generation American writers often have two stories to tell. There’s the story of their inspiration and the quest for a discipline to give form to their imaginings. Then there’s a more constricted tale: the arrival myth. How did my parents get here from Hungary or . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Early History of the Ford Motor Company
Everyone knows the first car was made by Henry Ford and was the Model A. But do you know the full early history of the Ford Motor Company? Henry Ford was 40 years old when he founded the Ford Motor Company in 1902. The company was launched with cash from twelve investors including John and Horace Dodge that went on to found their own car company....
- Jill Lepore: The battle over America’s founding document.
It is written in an elegant, clerical hand, on four sheets of parchment, each two feet wide and a bit more than two feet high, about the size of an eighteenth-century newspaper but finer, and made not from the pulp of plants but from the hide of an animal . . ....
