Articles by Samantha Peale
December 16, 2009
A Year in Reading: Samantha Peale 0
Norman Rush’s story of a brilliant anthropologist at large in Botswana, observing the ways and means of blacks and whites while she makes her erudite way in the world as a woman, an academic and an American, is as vivid and thrilling now as it was upon my first reading.
October 19, 2009
Reading about Pictures: Michael Kimmelman’s Portraits 1
Any detail one might seek – a name, a face, a room, a shadow, an era, a feeling or the mere hint of one – exists in paint and it’s all available, for pleasure and plunder.
