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 ...
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." ...
Richard Holmes is a Professor of Biography studies at the University of East Anglia and has won numerous literary awards. Richard Holmes presents a lyrical, heroic history of ballooning - in other ...