FANCY
It’s the house that tires built, and it’s a particularly spectacular one.
Anthony Paletta is a freelance writer located in New York City. He's contributed to the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Metropolis, Architectural Record, Citylab, and other publications.
OOH LA LA
Forget South Beach, the Grand Concourse in the Bronx has one of the most dramatic vistas in the city and an incredible collection of Art Deco architecture.
PLASTIC
Facing down hungry socialist city planners, the communist government of Poland based its rebuilding of Nazi-destroyed Warsaw Old Town on a painting by the nephew of a great artist.
MAIS OUI
It’s not the only city to lay claim to that title, but the long overlooked Romanian capital is actually a treasure trove of French influences.
BRUTAL CHARM
There’s no old city, no Mughal palaces, no timeless temples, no winding streets, or anything of the sort.
Line Dancing
Nighttime was the right time for Winsor McCay, whose early 20th century comic strip about a little boy’s dreams proved forever that comics could be both mass entertainment and high art.
No-Hit Wonders
C.D. Rose’s fabricated compendium of failed authors includes one who wrote in an undecipherable code, one who could only get as far as the opening sentence, and one who ate his own books.
A new book takes us through the Big Top’s weird and wacky history as one of the most popular tropes in Western culture.
Anniversary
The 50th anniversary of Winston Churchill's death is a fitting occasion to note that he was not only a great leader but one of the finest writers of the century he helped define.
The Atrocity Exhibition
Why did the Yugoslavian novelist Danilo Kis use modernist experiments to explore the horrors of the Eastern Bloc? Anthony Paletta on his life.
