Summer 2008
"We should find ourselves indulging in similar daydreams if we started musing under the cone-shaped roof of a wind-mill. We should sense its terrestrial nature, and imagine it to be a primitive hut stuck togehter with mud, firmly set on the ground in order to resist the wind. Then, in an immense synthesis, we should dream at the same time of a winged house that whines at the slightest breeze and refines the energies of the wind. Millers, who are the wind thieves, make good flour from storms."
- Gaston Bachelard (1958), (From The Poetics of Space)
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"Uncle" | |
| A confessional memoir of life and love with Arthur Dub. |
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Exhibition Review—David Bryne: Playing a Building [.pdf] | |
| Our New York correspondent experiences a peculiar installation. |
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Review of Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi | |
| An ode to the wild mind of animation's enfant terrible. |
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"And play the game!": Politics, Sport, and Beijing | |
| Boycott or bust? A sensible stance on the problem of this Olympics. |
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Exhibition Review—Richard Misrach: On the Beach | |
| Blockbuster photography for the National Gallery's summer season. |
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Review of The Age of American Unreason | |
| Whence comes distraction? Has America lost its focus? |
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Review of A Man Without a Country | |
| Vonnegut bids his readers an appropriate, sometimes grim, farewell. |
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"Tearing Through The Curtain": A Review of The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts | |
| Milan Kundera's hopes for an art yet to come.. |
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Exhibition Review—The New World of Coca-Cola | |
| How Coca-Cola creates a brand experience in their new Atlanta, GA exhibit. |
The Modest Proposal is an electronic journal specializing in book reviews, emerging thought, and polemical essays of general interest. Direct all inquiries to the editor.
