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Joy Setton

Of Franco-American nationality, Joy Setton is a professional dilettante and an amateur writer living in New York.

Cindy Sherman at the MoMA

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Photographers, Real and Imagined

Joy Setton

After finishing a series of photographs, Jed Martin feels like he never wants to take anot...

Untitled (The Cow Jumps Over the Moon), 1937–38 by Willem de Kooning

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Of Oil and Oil Paints

Joy Setton

The de Kooning show just closed at MoMA, and I just finished reading The Quest: Energy, Se...

Lit Crit

The Year Is Almost Over—Is the World?

Joy Setton

Things aren’t looking too good these days, says Slavoj Zizek in his latest book, Living ...

Art Basel Miami 2011

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Hanging by a Thread

Joy Setton

In Miami Beach on Monday morning, the convention center was strewn with cardboard, Scotch ...

1956 Cadillac Eldorado

Lit Crit

From Black Robes to White Coats

Joy Setton

I just drove to Kansas and back, 2600 miles listening to the radio and pondering American ...

Lit Crit

The Most Brutal Species

Joy Setton

David Grossman. To the End of the Land. Vintage (reprint edition), 2011. 672pp. Dave Gross...

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What is and What Doesn’t Have to Be

Joy Setton

On Lake Geneva I float, looking at France across the water, where the grass is not greener...

Silvio Berlusconi

Commerce

Stock Characters and Stock Prices

Joy Setton

On the blue Mediterranean I float, reading: It’s only now that we realize that the gleam...

Apocalypse Now

Of Drama and Drachmas

Joy Setton

On the blue Aegean I float, reading: Greek cities were at least for a while taken over by ...

Trash

The Effluent Society

Joy Setton

It is summer in the city and the smell of trash rises from the hot streets. There is trash...

Lit Crit

Of Confucius and Confusion

Joy Setton

In his new book On China, Henry Kissinger looks at what makes China what it is. In his new...

Jonathan Franzen

Lit Crit

The Freedom to Be Middling

Joy Setton

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen came out last year, but since it has been called the novel of ...

Alexander McQueen

Fashion

Objets d′Art: Nothing More Than Objets

Joy Setton

I usually go to art shows to look at fashion, but last week I went to a fashion show to lo...

Lit Crit

Of Novels and Novelty Acts

Joy Setton

According to reviewers, Jennifer Egan’s novel A Visit From the Goon Squad is "vi...

Lit Crit

Literature’s Most Influential Hussy

Joy Setton

She lives on credit and lusts after entertainment, whether emotional or commercial. She de...

Donald Rumsfeld

Lit Crit

Donald Rumsfeld: Known, Unknown, and Better Left Unsaid

Joy Setton

Nixon in China, John Adams's opera based on Richard Nixon's dÃ©tente-seeking 1972 visit ...

Gauche Contre Droite: The LÃ©vy-Houellebecq Letters

Joy Setton

Last week we nostalgically suggested that culturally, things might have been better in the...

Fran Lebowitz

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Fran Lebowitz is Always Right

Joy Setton

Fran Lebowitz doesn’t write anymore. Does it have something to do with having known ...

Lynda Benglis

Art: Scene and Unseen

Joy Setton

Thursday night is opening night at the Chelsea galleries in New York. But, an art opening ...

Thomas Bernhard

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Bernhard the Happy Nihilist

Joy Setton

"You must come visit us in Vienna," said Mrs H. as we lunched at Cecconi's in Miam...

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