Joy Setton 
Of Franco-American nationality, Joy Setton is a professional dilettante and an amateur writer living in New York.
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Photographers, Real and ImaginedMay 04 2012 After finishing a series of photographs, Jed Martin feels like he never wants to take another shot. So does Cindy Sherman. There are other similarities |
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Of Oil and Oil PaintsJan 20 2012 The de Kooning show just closed at MoMA, and I just finished reading The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by |
Cultural Caviar
The Year Is Almost Over—Is the World?Dec 30 2011 Things aren’t looking too good these days, says Slavoj Zizek in his latest book, Living in the End Times. The underlying premise of the present |
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Hanging by a ThreadDec 08 2011 In Miami Beach on Monday morning, the convention center was strewn with cardboard, Scotch Tape, Styrofoam peanuts, and other packing litter. The hotel bars were |
Commerce
From Black Robes to White CoatsNov 30 2011 I just drove to Kansas and back, 2600 miles listening to the radio and pondering American industry, the heartland, affairs of the heart, and other |
Cultural Caviar
The Most Brutal SpeciesNov 06 2011 David Grossman. To the End of the Land. Vintage (reprint edition), 2011. 672pp. Dave Grossman. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in |
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What is and What Doesn’t Have to BeSep 13 2011 On Lake Geneva I float, looking at France across the water, where the grass is not greener but the prices are much lower. I don’t |
Commerce
Stock Characters and Stock PricesSep 04 2011 On the blue Mediterranean I float, reading: It’s only now that we realize that the gleaming wealth of the past years was shored up by |
Apocalypse Now
Of Drama and DrachmasAug 25 2011 On the blue Aegean I float, reading: Greek cities were at least for a while taken over by populist strongmen swept into power partly by |
Commerce
The Effluent SocietyAug 02 2011 It is summer in the city and the smell of trash rises from the hot streets. There is trash on the sidewalks, trash in the |
Commerce
Of Confucius and ConfusionJul 20 2011 In his new book On China, Henry Kissinger looks at what makes China what it is. In his new book The Origins of Political Order, |
Cultural Caviar
The Freedom to Be MiddlingJul 05 2011 Freedom by Jonathan Franzen came out last year, but since it has been called the novel of the century, I suppose it is still relevant. |
Cultural Caviar
Objets d′Art: Nothing More Than ObjetsJun 14 2011 I usually go to art shows to look at fashion, but last week I went to a fashion show to look at art. The actress |
Cultural Caviar
Of Novels and Novelty ActsMay 24 2011 According to reviewers, Jennifer Egan’s novel A Visit From the Goon Squad is "virtuosic," "shape shifting," "startlingly new," and it "turns the novel on its |
Cultural Caviar
Literature’s Most Influential HussyMay 05 2011 She lives on credit and lusts after entertainment, whether emotional or commercial. She derives her pleasure solely from seeing her reflection in the gleam of |
Cultural Caviar
Donald Rumsfeld: Known, Unknown, and Better Left UnsaidApr 18 2011 Nixon in China, John Adams's opera based on Richard Nixon's détente-seeking 1972 visit to the People's Republic, has Kissinger pirouetting, Chairman and Madame Mao dancing |
Cultural Caviar
Gauche Contre Droite: The Lévy-Houellebecq LettersApr 06 2011 Last week we nostalgically suggested that culturally, things might have been better in the past. This week we will nostalgically infer that they might be |
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Fran Lebowitz is Always RightMar 23 2011 Fran Lebowitz doesn’t write anymore. Does it have something to do with having known success at a young age and seeing so many people buying |
Commerce
Art: Scene and UnseenMar 17 2011 Thursday night is opening night at the Chelsea galleries in New York. But, an art opening is not a good place to look at art |
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Bernhard the Happy NihilistMar 04 2011 "You must come visit us in Vienna," said Mrs H. as we lunched at Cecconi's in Miami Beach. "Oh, Vienna, yes, I"ve been thinking of |
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