FARGO — People have always talked about out-of-the-ordinary weather. "Funny weather we're having," has long been an easy way to start a conversation with a stranger. However, in recent years, the ...

Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency, by Olivia Laing, published by W. W. Norton & Company I did not anticipate writing this review from self-imposed solitude. Months ago, when I first opened Olivia ...

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It’s in the definition of shorter-form writing that it allows less room to stray and complicate; such quick-fire assertions, in evidence here and in the frieze columns from which the volume takes in ...