The Bowery Boys: New York City History
In 1987, Donald Trump released the book Trump: The Art of the Deal, a distillation of the 1980s that looked like a pocket-sized version of the real-estate mogul’s own brass-coated palace Trump Tower. The book was a national best-seller, a staple of airport bookstores, aimed at business travelers. But a more unflattering look at Trump’s… Read More
Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers & Swells: The Best of Early Vanity Fair Various authors Edited by Graydon Carter with David Friend Penguin Press BOOK REVIEW  Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers & Swells: The Best of Early Vanity Fair sounds like a soirée in book form, but it’s a lot more than that.  If anything, the book’s title is a… Read More
The cartoon below is from Puck Magazine, published in 1893. I believe this is a criticism of the ‘manliness’ of women’s fashions in the 1890s, but I suppose it also works on an additional level as a 19th century indictment of gay marriage. The caption: Justice of the Peace (somewhat near-sighted): ‘Want to be married?… Read More