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...Albuquerque, New Mexico, he has been dismissed as a regionalist, and because he is earnestly New Agey in explaining his architecture (elemental earth forces, invisible Native American residues, UFOS and so on), critics and tastemakers have not always granted him his considerable due. But he has consistently produced marvelous, singular work, and the house he just finished in the Dallas suburb of Highland Park is particularly fine. Set on a steep, forested site in a neighborhood of conventionally swanky Texas mansions, the new house is a not-quite-severe collage of limestone, concrete and black steel, simultaneously grave and jazzy...
...Line of Beauty” by director Andrew Davies, best known for period pieces like “Middlemarch” and “Pride and Prejudice.”Regardless of genre or period, Hollinghurst’s style will remain his own: singular, lyrical, sharp, and evasive of neat definition. “I’ve tried to write both as accurately and as musically as I can,” he says. “I don’t understand quite what my own style is.” Maybe being understood isn?...
...singular strength of the book is that Isherwood brings this happy mix of earnestness and mischief to the realm where it is most essential and most rare: the search for God. When he determined to dedicate himself to the Swami, he made it plausible by remembering that he "hated anything which sounded like 'religion'" and "had always regarded Vedanta philosophy, or yoga, as the ultimate in mystery-mongering nonsense." Here is the perfect skeptic's guide to faith, in which even the most vaporous of concepts is rendered with a brilliant everyday lucidity ("The Ego...is like...
...Dawson, seeking to avoid subjectivity by including, in fact, only one true member of the 2005 Harvard football team. However, I received almost as many votes for Fitzpatrick (6)—last year’s captain and current NFL quarterback—as Dawson (7), and a singular polemical: “This is a poor question. I think calling one person the most important would be a poor reflection of how much of a TEAM sport football is, no?” Granted, it probably was a poor question, but the response, the familiarity with Fitzpatrick?...
Like anyone throughout the ages, David has more than one side. Pinsky points out the singular importance of seeing his protagonist at every age, because “in his faults and attainments, his losses and victories, [he] embodies on a scale almost beyond imagining the action of living a life.” David and the scripture that he occupies are keys to modern religious life, yet each of them defies easy labels. Like faith itself, what you see in each of them—ideas of good and bad, of pious and heretic—is a matter...