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Why waste time hot airing?

Francesca Wade: The Best-Paid Woman in NYC, 26 June 2025

Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy 
edited by Erica Ciallela and Philip S. Palmer.
DelMonico, 304 pp., £44.99, December 2024, 978 1 63681 135 2
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Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters 
by Deborah Parker.
Harvard, 170 pp., £20.95, October 2024, 978 0 674 29981 8
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... Belle da Costa Greene, a study of the letters (which prints several of the juiciest in full), Deborah Parker suggests that in the letters to Berenson we come closest to an expression of her private life, though she was still careful to let him know that her confessions might be cloaked in a protective veneer: ‘My real life I live to myself – and ...

Buy birthday present, go to morgue

Colm Tóibín: Diane Arbus, 2 March 2017

Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer 
by Arthur Lubow.
Cape, 734 pp., £35, October 2016, 978 0 224 09770 3
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Silent Dialogues: Diane Arbus and Howard Nemerov 
by Alexander Nemerov.
Fraenkel Gallery, 106 pp., $30, March 2015, 978 1 881337 41 6
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... every day, began to encourage her to make her images as disturbing as possible. The photographer Deborah Turbeville noted: ‘Marvin was manipulating her to go further and further into dark subject matter. The more strange, the better, for Marvin … When an artist discovers someone who understands her work that well, she becomes dependent on him. She has ...

Diary

Alan Bennett: Allelujah!, 3 January 2019

... also at the National was interrupted by a young man who got up on the stage, sat down beside Jamie Parker, who was playing the piano, and started playing along with him. Jamie, more sophisticated than I would have been, recognised this as an instance of Asperger’s and gently ushered the young man off the stage.This is not to mention the several occasions ...

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