At this year’s Art Production Fund gala, the “après” party started early. The arts organization is known for its in-depth themed fundraisers — summer camp, slumber parties, nautical — and on Wednesday nights, The Grill and The Pool are transformed into cozy chalets for after-ski. An ice bar sculpture, engraved with the Art Production Fund … [Read more…]
Peter Matthiessen in New York City, 1961. Photograph by Ben Martin/Getty Images. When Peter Matthiessen’s name comes up in conjunction with The Paris Review, two facts are sure to emerge. The first is that Matthiessen was one of the magazine’s founders, and that his enchantingly shabby Paris apartment provided a bumptious gathering place in its … [Read more…]
“These are our Stars & Stripes,” US Soccer said in their announcement on Monday. CHICAGO — Soccer players from the United States will be decked out in the stars and stripes when they play on home soil during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the team announced Monday. US Soccer is partnering with Nike to develop … [Read more…]
March 14, 2026; Inglewood, California, USA; Sacramento Kings guard-forward DeMar DeRozan (10) shoots at LA Clippers guard Kris Dunn (8) during the second half at the Intuit Dome. Mandatory Credit: Jonathan Hui-Imagne Images The two worst teams in the Western Conference will square off Sunday night when the Sacramento Kings host the Utah Jazz. The … [Read more…]
Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, March 26, 1930. Courtesy of the Virginia Woolf Papers, Smith College Mortimer Rare Book Collection, Smith College Special Collections. Virginia Woolf was fascinated by biographical writing, even though she considered it something of a doomed genre. She wrote traditional and imagined biographies, of people and dogs, that experiment with how … [Read more…]
2005 Saab sedan. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC by 3.0. I learned to drive in the parking lot of what was then an A&P supermarket, which marked the exit to the house my family owned at the time, on the edge of the bay and across from the small harbour. The idea was … [Read more…]
Film stills from Die Macht der Gefühle (The power of emotion), final sequence: “Undoing of a crime by means of cooperation,” 1983. All images courtesy of Alexander Kluge. ARRIVAL OF SUNDAY’S CHILD Things went on until three in the morning. The child, arriving in the world at 11:55 P.M., bathed, photographed, placed in the young … [Read more…]
Iran is scheduled to begin its World Cup campaign against New Zealand on June 15 in Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES — With the World Cup starting in three months, Iranian officials say the team will not take part in the event. Iran’s Sports Minister says his country will not be able to take part in … [Read more…]
Scottie Scheffler tees off on the 17th hole in the second round of the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach on Friday March 14, 2025. Scheffler is the only back-to-back winner of The Players. The smallest field in The Players Championship history will pit the iconic TPC Sawgrass against the PGA Tour’s … [Read more…]
Every month, we search dozens of soon-to-be-published books, to get great ideas and writing for Overview’site. Often we are surprised by certain paragraphs or sentences from the kitchen that pile up on our counters and spill onto our shelves. We sometimes share them with each other on Slack, and we thought, in return, we might … [Read more…]