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Happy Holidays! Ten Great Reads About Dysfunctional Families

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Dysfunctional Families: A Primer Televisions and movies would have us believe that the time from late November to the new year is a run on love, togetherness, and eggnog sipped in front of an open fire, but real-life seldom plays out so nicely.  There are a multitude of reasons to dread the holidays, but whom […]

Charles Dickens: Pop Star

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This Sunday marks the 152nd anniversary of Charles Dickens first visit to the United State, to read before a packed audience at Boston’s Tremont Temple. In a gushing story at the time, the New York Times reported that the hall was filled “by perhaps one of the most appreciative, fashionable, and brilliant audiences ever assembled […]

Recalling Bernardo Bertolucci’s 2003 masterpiece, The Dreamers

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By R. Kurt Osenlund Roger Ebert called Bernardo Bertolucci one of the great painters of the screen. It’s a distinction the director—who has succumbed to cancer at 77—proved many times over, from his sprawling Oscar favorite The Last Emperor (1987) to the lush and undervalued Stealing Beauty (1996). In The Dreamers (2003), an audacious big screen adaptation of […]

Everyone’s Kind of Stupid About Love

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An exclusive excerpt from Mya Spalter’s new book, Enchantments: A Modern Witch’s Guide to Self-Possession. EVERYONE’S KIND OF STUPID ABOUT LOVE, OR ATTRACTION MAGIC Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. —Rumi Can you believe I just quoted […]

Get Your Plaid On

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We have collaborated with JCRT (Jeffrey Costello and Robert Tagliapietra) to create a series of limited plaid shirts that reflect the jacket designs of five books curated for One Grand including Trevor Noah (The Little Prince), Michael Stipe (Just Kids), Tilda Swinton (Modern Nature), Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Great Gatsby) and James Franco (Blood Meridian). $90 […]

Beware the Bear

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Aaron Hicklin reviews The Feral Detective, in which Jonathan Lethem conjures Burning Man if it was directed by Hitchcock. On the penultimate page of his pacy 11th novel, The Feral Detective, slick-tongued protagonist, Phoebe Siegler, touches the umpteenth nerve ending of Lethem’s urbane, metropolitan readers. “I wasn’t going back to op-eds and conceptual art installations […]

My Year in Books

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Meghan Udell, a producer of the Deep Water Literary Fest, read over 120 books this year. She picks her ten favorites.   Every year on my birthday I set a personal goal for myself. For all intents and purposes, it’s exactly like a New Year’s resolution, except I get the distinct and petty pleasure of […]

Double Exposure

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Cecil Beaton may be best known for his society portraits, but like Bill Brandt and Robert Capa, some of his most powerful photography was taken during the Second World War. By Bella Bathurst At the outbreak of war in 1939, the British establishment mistrusted photography almost as much as they mistrusted Nazis.  “Snappers” were seen as […]