- Emily Nussbaum: “Archer,” “Eastbound & Down” reviews.
8220;Archer” is a fleet, filthy sitcom, an animated half hour about a spy who is convinced that he’s the center of the universe. Created by Adam Reed, the series, on FX, blends James Bond plots and “Mad Men” looks, then marbles in the surreal . . ....
- 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.)...
- Anthony Lane: M.R. James’s “Collected Ghost Stories.”
The name of Montague Rhodes James is not widely recognized in America, and there will be little fellow-feeling for the world he chose to inhabit. Indeed, it seems as remote as a cold, unvisitable planet, viewed from afar. James was born in southeast England in 1862. His father, Herbert . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Short Story About a Short Story
You can write Short Stories. One motivation for writing was my belief that I could do better than much of the material I read. You could develop the same belief about me or anyone else and begin producing great stories. This story is a little autobiographical, and that could be a fun place to start. This is a story about writing with some advice thrown in to get you started....
- Goings on About Town: Art
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“Velázquez Rediscovered.” Through Feb. 7. | “The ‘Young Archer,’ Attributed to Michelangelo.” Ongoing. | “Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156-1868.” Through Jan. 10. | “American . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Art
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“Velázquez Rediscovered.” Through Feb. 7. | “The ‘Young Archer,’ Attributed to Michelangelo.” Ongoing. | “Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156-1868.” Through Jan. 10. | “American . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Art
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“Velázquez Rediscovered.” Through Feb. 7. | “The ‘Young Archer,’ Attributed to Michelangelo.” Ongoing. | “Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156-1868.” Through Jan. 10. | “American . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Art
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“Velázquez Rediscovered.” Through Feb. 7. | “The ‘Young Archer,’ Attributed to Michelangelo.” Ongoing. | “Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156-1868.” Through Jan. 10. | “American . . ....
- Jeffrey Toobin: Not Covered
Abortion is almost as old as childbirth. There has always been a need for some women to end their pregnancies. In modern times, the law’s attitude toward that need has varied. In the United States, at the time the Constitution was adopted, abortions before “quickening” were . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Art
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METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“Velázquez Rediscovered.” Through Feb. 7. | “The ‘Young Archer,’ Attributed to Michelangelo.” Ongoing. | “Vermeer’s Masterpiece ‘The Milkmaid.’ ” Through Nov. 29. | “Art of . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Art
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“The ‘Young Archer,’ Attributed to Michelangelo.” Ongoing. | “Vermeer’s Masterpiece ‘The Milkmaid.’ ” Through Nov. 29. | “Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156-1868.” The steel . . ....
- Top 5 Things To Bring To London
In London there is a wide range of attractions and things to do and see, including going to see a top London show, shopping in Oxford Street, or watching the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. Here are five essential items to bring when you're on a London short break....
- Top 5 Things To Bring To London
In London there is a wide range of attractions and things to do and see, including going to see a top London show, shopping in Oxford Street, or watching the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. Here are five essential items to bring when you're on a London short break....
- Goings on About Town: Art
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“The ‘Young Archer,’ Attributed to Michelangelo.” Ongoing. | “Vermeer’s Masterpiece ‘The Milkmaid.’ ” Through Nov. 29. | “Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156-1868.” . . ....
- Jeffrey Frank: Apologia.
I was glad to be offered the apology—and about time, too—but I was far from ready to accept it. Not that it was a bad apology, but it never quite rose to the level I’d expected, and so I declined. Then, a day or . . ....
- Jeffrey Toobin: Post-Pizza
Sometime in the next few months, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four confederates will be indicted in Manhattan federal court, and the case will arrive at a turning point: the designation of the judge who will preside over their trial. The selection is usually made by a draw from a wheel . . ....
- Jeffrey Eugenides: “Asleep in the Lord.”
Mitchell had never so much as changed a baby’s diaper before. He’d never nursed a sick person, or seen anyone die, and now here he was, surrounded by a mass of dying people, and it was his job to help them die at peace, knowing they . . . (Subscription required.)...
- 5 Elements of a Short Story – Learn About Short Stories
Literature has varieties and short story is one of the types of literature. In broader sense of the term, it is a story which is short. It is a form or a genre having its own. According to H. E. Bates, short story can be anything that the author describes it to be....
- Jeffrey Toobin: Are Obama’s judges really liberals?
The Obama Administration wanted to send a message with the President’s first nomination to a federal court. “There was a real conscious decision to use that first appointment to say, ‘This is a new way of doing things. This is a post-partisan choice,’ ” . . ....
- Jeffrey Toobin: Campaign-finance reform and the Supreme Court.
Eight of the current Supreme Court Justices are known for their zeal in questioning lawyers. That tendency was on display last week during the oral argument over the constitutionality of an Arizona law known as the Citizens Clean Elections Act, a law that attempts to do a little something about . . ....
- Jeffrey Eugenides: “Extreme Solitude.”
It was debatable whether or not Madeleine had fallen in love with Leonard the first moment she’d seen him. She hadn’t even known him then, and so what she’d felt was only sexual attraction, not love. Even after they’d gone out for . . ....
- Rabindranath Tagore – Noble Prize Winner Writer
Rabindranath Tagore was born in 1861 in the state of Bengal. He was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore. Debendranath Tagore founded 'Brahmo Samaj', with his friend and social activist Raja ram Mohan Roy. Rabindranath Tagore was educated at home. At the age of 17 he was sent to England for further education. He didn't complete his education in London and returned back...
- Jeffrey Toobin: What Obama can learn from F.D.R.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his first term, went to war with the Supreme Court. Time and again, the Court’s conservative majority declared that measures that the President regarded as vital in order to address the extraordinary perils of the Great Depression were unconstitutional. Emboldened by a landslide re . . ....
- Jeffrey Goldberg: Elephants, poachers, and a shooting in Zambia.
In the early nineteen-seventies, Mark and Delia Owens, two graduate students in biology at the University of Georgia, were seized by the idea of resettling in remotest Africa. They organized an auction, sold their possessions, and used the modest proceeds to buy camping equipment and a pair of one . . ....
- Andrea K. Scott: Jeffrey’s Grocery, in the West Village.
paragraph class="noindent">In the West Village, where the corner store is more likely to be run by Marc Jacobs than by Mom and Pop, Gabriel Stulman (of the Little Owl, Market Table, Joseph Leonard, and the forthcoming Fedora) has opened a gem of a throwback and named it after . . ....
- Jeffrey Frank: The Republican Party, from Nixon to Romney.
On the second Tuesday in March sixty years ago, Republican primary voters in New Hampshire had a choice of two major candidates. One was the former Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was supported by a cabal of moderate Easterners, including the two-time . . ....
- Jeffrey Toobin: When podiatrists break the law.
It’s tempting, in surveying the history of podiatry, to focus only on the grandeur. According to a number of podiatry Web sites, Hippocrates invented the scalpel so that he could remove his patients’ corns and calluses. William Scholl, of Chicago, came up with an innovative “Foot . . ....
- Goings on About Town: On the Horizon
THE THEATRE
NUMBERS CRUNCH
April 8
The infamously fraudulent Texas energy firm is the subject of “Enron,” a new play (with music, dance, and video) by Lucy Prebble. Norbert Leo Butz stars as the company’s disgraced C.E.O., Jeffrey Skilling, along with Gregory Itzin, as its president . . ....
