Monday, August 11, 2008

• Thomas Mallon of The New York Times on the life and times of minor literary forger, New Yorker, Lee Israel.

• Alexander Theroux reviews From Greenich Village to Taos for The Wall Street Journal. The book by Flannery Burke concerns socialite Mabel Dodge Luhan, who, between 1917 and 1929, tried to transform Taos, New Mexico, into the mecca of the avant-garde.

• Three comic-book legends, Neal Adams, Joe Kubert, and Stan Lee, have teamed up to help Dina Gottliebova Babbitt try to recover her wartime art work from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland. (The New York Times)

• Edward Hopper's Cape Cod: a slideshow from The New York Times (via C-Monster)