Edwin Frank asks what we can learn from the novels of the 20th century
When Edwin Frank, who founded New York Review Books in 1999 and has run it ever since, read Alex Ross’s 2008 book, “ The Rest ...
From Tuxedos To Tattoos, Eleanor Medhurst's Unsuitable Traces A Hidden History Of Lesbian Fashion
The violet is a recurring motif. Sappho used the flower in her romantic poetry, writing of“crowns of violets”. But Medhurst is also interested in Sappho's“afterlives”, as the poet's image was ...