Ravi Shankar and Westerners in India
Will Vincent
As much as I’d like to refrain from writing another post about a legendary musician’s passing, the sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar died yesterday at the age of 92. Outside of… Read more »
As much as I’d like to refrain from writing another post about a legendary musician’s passing, the sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar died yesterday at the age of 92. Outside of… Read more »
In the wake of the two month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, we asked Lewis Lapham, the founder of Lapham’s Quarterly and the former editor of Harper’s, what books he… 18 / Read more »
In Lapham’s Quarterly “Celebrity Issue,” novelist Charles Baxter provides a sharp postmodern reading of Phineas Taylor Barnum’s 1855 autobiography The Life of P. T. Barnum. Baxter makes a case that Barnum–the… Read more »