Last week, I was walking through the streets of Brooklyn, when I saw a cardboard box thrown out on the sidewalk. Book 1 of 4: Essays Book 2 of 4: A cult book “As we waited at that street corner in the vivid, fiery air of late October, we stared dumbly through the windows at the autumn we’d forgotten, living …
NEW YORK — “How do you define American fashion?” It was three years ago, and Andrew Bolton, the longtime curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, was pondering that question. “There are 100 different definitions of American fashion,” Bolton said this weekend as he showed a reporter around the new show, which opens to the public later this …
One of the more straightforward pleasures of reading A Patchwork Quilt, the 82-year-old director Sai Paranjpye’s memoir which releases later this week, is discovering what she was like as a child. Recalling how Sheikh and Naseeruddin Shah wanted each other’s roles in Katha initially, Paranjpye says, “Farooque said that he had such a squeaky clean image and how could he …
