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Wednesday, December 6, 2023
As the Dutch East India Company established its empire around the globe, painters of the Dutch Golden Age examined the interiors—intimate spaces in the home, and of the human heart and mind. Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. October 22, […]
On June 2, Sam Quinones, author of the book Dreamland, reported that: The New England Journal of Medicine startled everyone this week by a posting a one-sentence warning over the so-called Porter & Jick letter to the editor that the journal published in January of 1980. The warning note reads: […]
From `Dreamland’ to Nightmare in One Generation Sam Quinones, Dreamland–The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic New York; Bloomsbury Press, 2015 by George Canning “Dreamland.” The very name invokes the Earthly paradise of cities and suburbs of yesteryear, and journalist Sam Quinones begins his “True Tale” with a prefatory chapter […]
By Nancy Spannaus First Entrepreneur: How George Washington Built His—and the Nation’s—Prosperity Edward G. Lengel Da Capo Press, Boston, 2016, 280 pp. February 2017–As director of the Washington Papers documentary editing project at the University of Virginia, author Edward G. Lengel has been working for 20 years on the extensive […]
By Nancy Spannaus Hamilton: The Revolution Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter Grand Central Publishing, 2016, 288 pages. March 2017—It is quite possible, as great philosophers have pointed out, for a misguided or totally erroneous action to have positive consequences. So might be the case with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s smash Broadway hit […]