Posts by Swedan Margen
Life, Liberty, and Fried Chicken: Honoring the Heroes Who Gave All for Freedom | National Review
We have the little joys of life because of the men and women who have sacrificed everything. Source link
Read MoreMark Ulriksen’s “Kings of New York”
For the cover of the June 1, 2026, issue, the artist Mark Ulriksen wanted to celebrate the Knicks, one of the city’s beloved basketball teams. “Their latest star, Jalen Brunson, belongs with the other greatest Knicks of all time,” Ulriksen said. “It would be quite the matchup if they could, in some alternate universe, all…
Read MoreLooking Back at Lewis and Clark
History is usually written in the third person, even though it has to be lived in the first, and Fehrman takes advantage of the rich and deep documentation of the Lewis and Clark expedition to try to reconcile the discrepancy. The book adopts the perspectives not only of Lewis and of Clark but also of…
Read MoreWhat Dogs See When They Look at Us
Laqueur takes the reader on a nearly encyclopedic trip through this truth and its consequences, ranging from Giotto’s dogs—calm, disengaged witnesses to holy stories (“At a foundational moment of Western art,” he says, “there is the dog doing what dogs do”)—to Bruegel the Elder’s massed and happy hunting hounds in winter, whose barks we can…
Read MoreAre Washington’s Most Important Gulf Allies on a Collision Course? | National Review
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Read MoreCote and the Risks of the Clubstaurant
The restaurateur Simon Kim opened Cote in the Flatiron district, in 2017, with an alluring conceit: a marriage of two of the great beef-worshipping restaurant genres, the Korean-barbecue joint and the American steak house. He borrowed Cote’s format from the former, with grills inset into tabletops and a classic Korean menu of meat, marinades, and…
Read MoreMr. Market Does Fair Hopping and Art Pricing | National Review
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Read MoreBefore His Murder, a Rabbi Addressed the Danger of Hatred | National Review
Rabbi Eli Schlanger, killed in the Bondi Beach massacre, reflected on the destructive power of words and deeds for a forthcoming book. Source link
Read MoreHow Raghu Rai Captured an India in Transition
That picture, “Burial of an Unknown Child,” became the defining image of the disaster, a depiction of tragedy so viscerally infused with loss that, even today, it appears on banners protesting the chemical company responsible, which has yet to make full amends for the incident. “Burial” is one of dozens of photos that Rai, who…
Read MoreThe Verve and Confrontation of Lisa Yuskavage’s Naked Ladies
The history of art is littered with naked ladies, of course, from Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus” to Ingres’s “Grande Odalisque” to Picasso’s “Nude Woman in a Red Armchair,” but Yuskavage’s ladies are, indeed, of a particular kind, and could quite easily be taken for what the artist’s husband, Matvey Levenstein, jokingly called “stroke material for…
Read MoreWhat Jack Kerouac Left Behind
Six months later, in February, 1943, most of the men Jack sailed with that summer—including Glory and the pastry chef—were killed when the Dorchester was torpedoed by a German U-boat. More than six hundred people died. Jack was so shattered by the news that his hands shook for weeks afterward. I remember him wearing the…
Read MoreWhat’s Missing from Belle Burden’s Best-Selling Memoir, “Strangers”
Margaret Ryznar, a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School who specializes in trusts and estates, had a somewhat different view on the prenup. “Our modern idea of marriage is that it’s a partnership, and that would be reflected by dividing his earnings in the divorce,” Ryznar told me. “Presumably she enabled him to make those…
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