Tributes to David Levine, who died on Tuesday at 83, have been mulling over his place among today’s cartoonists and caricaturists. Fair enough. But his genius was really that he wasn’t like anybody else. Read more…

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For a long time, everyone has known that Paris was the capital of the nineteenth century, the city where the modern was invented: the society of the spectacular. But everyone was wrong. The capital of the nineteenth century was London. Think about it. Walter Benjamin’s symbol of the Parisian modern was the arcade. The arcade! In London-according to the social campaigner [...]

The number of high school graduates has climbed to a record height this decade. You’d think that would make college admissions more competitive than ever, but a recent paper by an economist suggests otherwise. Read more…
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David Levine, whose macro-headed, somberly expressive, astringently probing and hardly ever flattering caricatures of intellectuals and athletes, politicians and potentates were the visual trademark of The New York Review of Books for nearly half a century, died Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 83 and lived in Brooklyn. Read more…

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THEIR company names were conspicuously absent from their nametags, but that is how these hedge fund managers and analysts — members of a field known for secrecy — preferred it. They filled the party space at the W Hotel on Lexington Avenue in late October, mostly men in their 30s. Balancing drinks on easels adorned [...]

Investors running to catch the stock market rally have brought the master’s words to life. Read more…

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The man who was not only the most famous and prolific surrealist but claimed to embody surrealism itself, Salvador Dalí was as known for his flamboyance and eccentricity as for his vast and compelling body of work. In his cultivation of an artistic and bizarre image, he contributed as much to the idea of “the [...]

Artists’ letters, often literary treasures in their own right, can provide compelling windows into the private struggles, public triumphs and towering ambitions that shaped their works and lives. The evocative and revealing correspondence of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), excerpted as early as 1893, has long fed a fascination with the artist’s impassioned [...]