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Culture Diary: August 2026
Detail from Pierre-Louis Pierson’s c. 1861 photograph of the Countess of Castiglione, via the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A certain degree of listlessness, of torpor, defines August to me. The heat, that sulphurous heat; the out-of-office...
GODONNA (part two)
Still from “Let It Will Be” as performed in 2006’s Confessions Tour.
This is the second in a two-part series of posts about Madonna. The first, published earlier this summer, features a review of her latest album, Confessions II, and her l...
“Putting the cloak of one language on another”
1929 image of an Art Deco clock via Wikimedia Commons. Time being, as always, a perpetual source of fascination and mystery, and a theme of some these pieces below…
August is Women in Translation month, an annual celebration of women write...
Culture Diary: July 2026
Still from Can She Bake A Cherry Pie?
July: Always my least favorite month, a month of heat and slowing down. People go on vacation in July; I remind myself this when I refresh my email inbox and notice the lack of response. It’s a good mo...
GODONNA (part one)
A young Madonna as seen in the nightclub Danceteria in New York in 1983. Photograph by the designer Maripol (who also gets a namecheck in the song “Danceteria”).
This is the first in a two-part series of posts about Madonna. This initial p...
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