The six medium-size, semiabstract canvases in this excellent show may be appreciated purely as rich essays in painterly improvisation.
Mr. Sachs's anecdote-rich essay vividly describes a bohemian art world not unlike the bourgeois milieu of "Mad Men," in which female artists were expected to play the roles of wife, lover, helpmeet and caretaker first and that of professional art maker last if at all.
Tron Guy asked whether becoming known online at such an early age would affect them in their teens, 20s and 30s, or whether it would make for rich college essay material.
Its parameters are established in a rich new essay called "Postmodernism as Liberty Valance," in which Lethem sides with the postmodernists he links metaphorically to John Ford's chaos-sowing gunman without belittling designated upholders of the old order like Alice Munro, Cormac McCarthy and Jonathan Franzen.
Tanya Bannister played both piano works, each a rich-hued essay in a traditional form.
Her dark, luminous eyes, deep set in a delicately boned face, stare out from the covers of magazines that carry her long, metaphorically rich political essays.
The entry is like a vivid, compacted little essay, rich in hunches and associations.
John Dunn, a professor of political theory at Cambridge University, tackles them and more in this rich and subtle essay.
(Laurie Anderson, 2015, Fra/US) 76 mins The death of her dog sets in motion a rich, free-ranging essay from Anderson, which touches on matters profound (death, dreams, data storage, storytelling), personal (some astounding childhood incidents) and trivial (teaching her dog to play piano).
In speaking at Kenyon, where the late David Foster Wallace gave a much remarked upon commencement address in 2005, Franzen continued what is, in a way, a dialogue that he has been conducting with his late friend over the past year — through his novel "Freedom" and Wallace's posthumous "The Pale King" and in his rich and knotty essay on Wallace published in The New Yorker in April.
The author has a tendency to digress at times, but be patient: ultimately, the book's real charm lies in the countless anecdotes and bits of historic and engineering trivia that pepper each essay, rich details guaranteed to stay with you.
