Tag: culture
Alexia Nader: Literary Miami
October 2012The broad strokes of Tom Wolfe’s Back to Blood and the subtle specificity of Joan Didion’s Miami.
Aaron Labaree: Postcard from Tar-Sands Country
August 2012The rush to mine Canada’s bitumen deposits has created modern-day boomtowns. This summer one of them lost its oldest bar.
Raymond Stock: Omar Sharif Speaks
April 2012In this never-published interview legendary actor Omar Sharif speaks about fathering a half-Jewish son in a one-night-stand and working on a bawdy, nearly forgotten film with Peter O’Toole.
Strangers in the Dark: Tana Wojczuk Interviews John Guare
March 2012American Playwright John Guare on Tennessee Williams, writing strong dialog, and discovering a New Orleans lost in history.
Barbara Ehrenreich: Rediscovering Poverty
March 2012How we cured the “culture of poverty” but not culture itself.
