by Alexandra Bowie For women of my generation, Helen Gurley Brown, the editor-in-chief-forever of Cosmopolitan was close to a…
February 17, 2017by Alexandra Bowie It’s a truism that the United States, like the rest of the developed world, is dependent…
February 3, 2017by Alexandra Bowie Bruno Alexander, the central character of Jonathan Lethem’s novel “A Gambler’s Anatomy” is a professional gambler…
January 20, 2017by Alexandra Bowie “Shoe Dog,” Phil Knight’s memoir of his life up until approximately the time Nike became a…
January 6, 2017by Alexandra Bowie Winston Churchill famously described Russia as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma;” add…
December 17, 2016by Nidhi Pugalia Do we still live in a man’s world? In Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan’s Sarong Party Girls, the…
December 10, 2016by Alexandra Bowie We think of the Depression as a time of food scarcity, our vision shaped by John…
December 2, 2016by Alexandra Bowie Some people stay home and find the world; others must travel the world to find their…
November 18, 2016If you’re passing through Grand Central, take a moment and stop at the Transit Museum’s Grand Central Annex (and…
November 18, 2016by Alexandra Bowie A private plane en route from Martha’s Vineyard to Teterboro falls into the ocean one calm…
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