March 9, 2014

Planes and ships from a half-dozen countries joined the search for the plane that vanished with 239 people, including two who apparently used stolen passports to board.

The vast wasteland of television has been replaced by an excess of excellence that is fundamentally altering my media diet and threatening to consume my waking life in the process.

“The Double Life of Paul de Man,” by Evelyn Barish, is the first full biography of the Yale literary theorist who helped turn deconstruction into an insurgent force in American intellectual life.

Charles Marville, the 19th-century photographer who documented old parts of Paris destined for demolition, turns out to be a man for our time.

A vast Frank Lloyd Wright archive relocated to New York is starting to yield new knowledge about him, including his thinking behind Broadacre City, a vision of a utopian metropolis.