art and culture

Review: At Large and at Small by Anne Fadiman

August 20, 2007 admin 0

Today, in January Magazine’s art & culture section, contributing editor Diane Leach reviews At Large and at Small by Anne Fadiman. Says Leach: Certain women, myself amongst them, fall for a certain kind of man: irresponsible, plain of face, depressed, tending toward drug and/or alcohol addiction. All too often these types are charismatic and given to poetry. Thus Fadiman’s passion for Charles Lamb and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Lamb, who cared for his sister Mary after […]

Review: The Complete Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz

July 24, 2007 admin 0

Today, in January Magazine’s art & culture section, contributing editor David Abrams reviews The Complete Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. Says Abrams: I can still recall Sunday afternoons — unimaginably long stretches of time free of the electronic jangle of yet-to-be-invented video games or cell phones — when I would lay propped on my elbows in our shag-carpeted living room with the bright sheet of comics spread before me. In those moments I became one […]

Review: Art in America edited by Susan Davidson

July 4, 2007 admin 0

Today, in January Magazine’s art & culture section, contributing editor Aaron Blanton examines Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation. Says Blanton: Unlike many — most? — art books of this calibre, written with an educated — even jaded — reader in mind, Art in America intends a very different audience: a readership perhaps not without art knowledge, but without direct or certainly full knowledge of American art. Davidson has done an incredible job with […]

Review: Ibiza Style by Ingrid Rasmussen and Chloe Grimshaw

May 25, 2007 admin 0

Today, in January Magazine’s art & culture section, contributing editor Aaron Blanton goes over the moon for Ibiza Style by Ingrid Rasmussen and Chloe Grimshaw. Blanton says: Rasmussen and Grimshaw have succeeded brilliantly. I may be completely under their spell — and though I detest a rave as much as a rant — I simply can’t imagine the person who would not enjoy spending time with Ibiza Style, it so fulfils at every level. Those […]

Review: Where’s My Jetpack? by Daniel H. Wilson

May 2, 2007 admin 0

Today, in January Magazine’s art & culture section, contributing editor Andi Shechter reviews Where’s My Jetpack? by Daniel H. Wilson, the book that answers all of our questions about the extremely disappointing 21st century. Says Shechter: What Wilson does in Where’s My Jetpack? is take a topic that those of us in the Baby Boomer generation saw in comics, movies, read in novels, watched on television, dreamed of and saw at the Smithsonian or the […]

Review: It’s In the Bag by Winifred Gallagher

April 12, 2007 admin 0

Today, in January’s art & culture section, Tracy Quan examines It’s In the Bag by Winifred Gallagher: Does carrying one of these grown-up security blankets make you a slave to fashion, or a more independent, mobile person? Gallagher engages sociologists, historians and, of course, bag designers, and comes up with some remarkable answers. Fashion historian Valerie Steele thinks women with multiple bags are practicing a form of serial monogamy, while a shoe collection is more […]

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Watch Your Marbles

January 24, 2007 admin 0

I don’t know how it happened that I missed noticing that Amy Sedaris had a book out almost before it was too late to report on it (yes that Amy Sedaris: brother of David and entertainment goddess in her own right). Meanwhile, Sedaris’ I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence (Warner Books, 2006) has been screaming up the charts. And it’s no surprise: the book is built on generous dollops of what appears to be […]

Gift Guide: Art & Culture

December 21, 2006 admin 0

January Magazine’s Holiday Gift Guide 2006 concludes with selections of books focused on various aspects of art & culture. Suggestions in fiction are here. Children’s books are here. Non-fiction is here and cookbooks can be found here. You can see the lead item to this feature here. 24: Behind the Scenes by Jon Cassar (Insight Editions) 168 pagesI’m an addict. I am a 24 junkie. I have fallen prey to the endless loops of plot […]