July–August 2012, no. 343
Alice Kessler-Harris: A Difficult Woman
Desley Deacon
Desley Deacon
A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman
by Alice Kessler-Harris
Bloomsbury, $39.99 hb, 439 pp, 9781596913639
Why, Al ...
News from the Editor's Desk
ABR moves to Southbank
While this issue is printing, we’ll be moving to our new office in Boyd, a wonderful extension of the ...
Anne Chisolm on the humiliation of Rupert Murdoch
Anne Chisolm
It all began with Prince William’s knee. Not, of course, the phone hacking and bribery and corruption which, as we all now know, was commonplace behaviour in the British tabloid newspapers at the heart of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire – that had been going on fo ...
Wordly riches at the Barnes
Patrick McCaughey
From musty Merion to a new home in Philadelphia
by Patrick McCaughey
In mid-May the Barnes Foundation opened at its new location in the cultural corridor of downtown Philadelphia. A cloud of controversy followed it to the end. The ne ...
