Is the increasingly permeable border between art and life leading to a world in which the arts can no longer create meaningful original experiences? Celebrated critic Lee Siegel tackles this question ...
“A Cloud in a paper bag” is how one of the inventors of the hot-air balloon described it in the 1780s. Compared with other descriptions of and predictions for it (the French writer Victor Hugo stated ...
FALLING UPWARDS: How We Took to the Air, by Richard Holmes. Pantheon, 404 pp., $35. "Show me a balloon and I'll show you a story; quite often a tall one," Richard Holmes tells us in "Falling Upwards." ...
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