June 29, 2015 9:00 AM EDT
Precisely 150 years ago, a fantastic story written by an Oxford mathematician starting circulating around England—and breaking all the Victorians’ rules about children’s literature. This unpredictable tale didn’t have pious morals; it had talking animals and death jokes and buckets upon buckets of nonsense.
Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has enchanted artists, thinkers and readers in the last century and a half, partly because of its wonderful clash of characters, from the curious to the brave to the chronically decapitating. Read More...
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April 18, 1949 12:00 AM GMT-5
“Going to the Feelies this evening, Henry? I hear the new one at the Alhambra is first-rate. There’s a love scene on a bearskin rug; they say it’s marvelous.”
The feelies—movies in which audiences could not only hear and see, but feel the clinches—were a major diversion in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the Utopian state where people were not born but mass-produced in retorts and female yearnings for motherhood were assuaged by a quick shot of “pregnancy substitute. Read More...
Some things do get better with age.
Feud: Bette and Joan, FX’s limited series about the animosity between titular Oscar-winners Davis (Susan Sarandon) and Crawford (Jessica Lange) in 1960s Hollywood, impressed me in its early going. But, ultimately, the show fell short of transcendence. There was plenty to like, from the carefully executed sets and costumes to the shrewd perspective on Davis as the ultimate survivor to Lange’s woozy Crawford, on the verge of losing what was most important to her: control. Read More...
