Category: nyc

• Of Texts and Tears: Or why I cried while working in the library last year

  Apr 3

  In August I had a short-term research fellowship from the New York Public Library. I spent nine days in New York City working in their Slavic and East European Collections,… more ›

• August Extra

  Aug 7

  de gustibus As many of you probably already know, for the past few years I’ve been learning about cocktails. By studying their history, developing techniques, and testing and formulating recipes,… more ›

• Eulogy for Lou Reed

  Nov 7

  I didn’t know Lou Reed. No, I never met the man. Yet I am certain, because of the authenticity I perceived in his songs, that I nevertheless knew him, albeit… more ›

• Malevich and Suprematism, Part I

  May 14

  Kazimir Severinovich Malevich [Казимир Северинович Малевич] was Russian in its most contested forms: he was born in Ukraine of ethnic Poles, which would make his name Kazimierz Malewicz. I suspect… more ›