Articles Written By Rosecrans Baldwin
Rosecrans Baldwin co-founded TMN with publisher Andrew Womack in 1999. His latest book is Everything Now: Lessons From the City-State of Los Angeles. More information can be found at rosecransbaldwin.com.
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Gallery
New York Changing
How much do the faces of New York City—the buildings, the bridges, the stores—change in 70 years? An interview with photographer Douglas Levere, who rephotographed Berenice Abbott’s pictures of 1930s New York, plus a gallery of startling images.
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Books
Lectures on Shakespeare
Erudition you can't pray to match can be highly invigorating. Auden's Lectures on Shakespeare is a master class by one master on another--cobbled together from students' notes of his 1946 New...
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Music
Solo Piano
Imagine every Haruki Murakami novel came with its own bar pianist--that's Solo Piano by Gonzales (the Paris-based producer of Feist, Manu Chao, many others). Unfortunately only an import for now,...
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Books
The Furies
Most of today's bestsellers will be forgotten in 60 years, and some of the least-known books will be hailed as classics. For the latter category, I nominate The Furies, Janet Hobhouse's...
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Books
Turning the Tables
Being a restaurant junkie when it's affordable, I read Steven Shaw's Turning the Tables: Restaurants From the Inside Out in one sitting, with two beers. It's a delicious guide on...
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Music
Maria Taylor
I have a problem with solo female pop singers with terrific voices--I cannot get enough, never, no way. Rebecca Gates, Feist, Brandy, Beth Orton, Alison Krauss, all have kept me...
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Books
The Last Samurai
I've probably bought more copies of Helen DeWitt's The Last Samurai than any other novel, because I give them away constantly and need to replenish my stock. What a book!...
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Letters From the Editor
The Official TMN Weekly Mailing List
For a long time readers have asked for a TMN newsletter to keep them apprised of our publishing schedule. They say, “I love TMN, but sometimes I forget to check...
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Books
Little, Big
For fans of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell or Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale--big-boned, richly imagined fantasies set in familiar places--there is John Crowley's overlooked masterpiece Little, Big, a juicy account of...
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Movies
Hot Summer
You and your strapping Caucasian friends are looking forward to a pleasant vacation on the shore, perhaps hooking up with equally comely and tall teenagers, and then romping on a...
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Books
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson's recent book Gilead wears its acclaim and awards like a hairshirt, but it's her earlier novel Housekeeping that mesmerized me. The story of two girls and a nearby...
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Books
The Italian Secretary
Love Sherlock Holmes? Love The Alienest series? Caleb Carr was commissioned by the Conan Doyle estate to write a new Holmes mystery, and so bore The Italian Secretary, a faithful...