October 9, 2008

Cold War Chic

This one is admitted a bit late – it’s now been over a week since I was at the Victoria & Albert in London – but since the exhibition “Cold War Modern” is on till January, you have plenty of time to get there. And get there you must. As a historian, I tend to [...]

October 9, 2008

No time for singing

Someone somewhere decided that 19th century novels make good musicals. Since I moved to New York – which isn’t that long ago – we had a Frankenstein (plus a young one), a Dracula, a Woman in White, and of course there was a Jane Eyre not long before that. Why not? It worked for Les Miz… [...]