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Writing for Dummies

This book is what happens when someone thinks the only reason they aren’t a professional writer is that they don’t have the time.

Joint Venture

In New York, you can connect anything with anything, so long as you have the right connections.

New Art City

People like a Yayoi Kusama because it looks like a Yayoi Kusama, i.e., polka dots.

Summertime Sadness

An ideal summer read need not actually take place in the summer, but The Guest does it well.

At Risk of Uncoupling

Our oldest putative ancestors look rather cast out, as if they were ready to quit the scene and hail a taxi home (wherever that is).

Cottagecore

What links Peter Zumthor’s spartan Swiss studio and the late Ted Kaczynski’s infamous Montana shed?

Crash Landing?

As the drone pans over the now empty, Borg-like interiors, commentators talk about the “soul” of the place.

Expansion Pack

It turns out that hill towns aren’t made all at once or by one person.

Familiar Faces

Everyone is recognizable, either because you know who they are or because you’ve seen these portraits before.

Going Once, Going Twice

No doubt it’s a finer fate than the place becoming an Apple Store.

Mini Me

BYO: concrete pad, plumbing, electricity, interior finishes, permits, land, labor, tears.

Over and Done With

The air in which the manifold facsimiles and translations were suspended was stale.

Temple Run

Ancient Egypt, so strange yet familiar, is a projection screen for every age.

The Orange Gloaming

Ours is a world where everything but us gets to go up in flames.

Twilight of the Elites

“Succession” was a terrific show about the daddy issues of the “stealth luxury” set—but a just-OK show about the intersection of media and politics.

Well-Heeled

The exhibition evokes medieval reliquaries—elevating the urban castoff to the realm of the sacred.
New York Review of Architecture
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