Facing the World Scottish National Portrait Gallery Brilliantly (and widely) selected self-portrait anthology.
The portrait is an anthology, and almost an alphabet, of McBride's looks, tastes and activities.
Set in a rural Wisconsin town, the book presents a series of portraits that resemble Edgar Lee Masters's "Spoon River Anthology" in their vividness and in the cumulative picture they create of village life.
Though he was only a runner-up, he later sold his screenplay to NBC, where it became "Leda's Portrait," an episode in the network's anthology suspense series "Lights Out," in 1951.
The latest work to get this treatment is the new anthology "State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America".
NEW SCHOOL Jonathan Franzen, Sarah Vowell, and Parker Posey offer a staged reading of Franzen's contribution, a play about New York State, to the new anthology "State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America".
While the classic literature of the sea documents such elements as fear, exhaustion, deprivation, and intense inter-personal relations aboard ship, the anthologies nonetheless often express a composite portrait of romance, revelation, and strength derived from constant, insistent experience with Nature.
And a sort of "greatest hits" anthology of scenes from "Macbeth" becomes a riveting portrait of a marriage drifting from fatal complicity to bleak, lonely estrangement.
From those who follow Dylan closely, there were gasps of surprise at what was about to be released: an anthology, available in both standard and "deluxe" versions, titled Another Self Portrait.
Mr. Makavejev has not made a full-length feature film since the dissolution of his homeland, but he has not remained idle: his 50-minute self-portrait, "Hole in the Soul (1994), and his contribution to the comic anthology film "Danish Girls Show Everything" (1996), are but the latest outpourings from the fertile mind of a restless artist.
Edmund White's scathing portrait of the late Harold Brodkey, set in gay New York in the 1970s, provides the anthology its single full-blown "monster".
