Fecundity
Fecundity comes from the Latin word fecundus, meaning fruitful, rich, or abundant. It is the rate at which individual organisms in the population produce offspring. Although the term can a...
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“Of all the classes,” wrote John Kenneth Galbraith, “the wealthy are the most noticed and the least studied.” That’s certain to change as the latest, most fecund Ameri...
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“Excuse me,” I said. “That's cute, but what is it?”
“It's an aboriginal fox,” the man answered, trying to pull it closer to him. The fox dug its paws in and ba...
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Last summer, I saw a man with a leash dragging a strange, scuttling creature across the big lawn in Prospect Park. Its ears were big, its tail was bushy, its face feline, but its body was hound-lik...
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While the nation honors the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, three states celebrate another man as well.In Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi, the slain civil rights leader shares a state holi...
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“One of the most ambitious … undertakings in the Whitney’s history” is how Adam Weinberg, the museum’s director, describes Picasso and American Art, an exhibition that...
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“One of the most ambitious … undertakings in the Whitney’s history” is how Adam Weinberg, the museum’s director, describes Picasso and American Art, an exhibition that...
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Bill Scott is a radical artist, but not in the sense to which we’ve become accustomed.
Mr. Scott, whose abstract paintings and prints are on display at Hollis Taggart Galleries, doesn’...
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EXIT GHOSTBy Philip RothHoughton Mifflin, 304 pages, $26
What to do when the best living American novelist writes a weak book? The New Yorker solved the problem (in the Oct. 1 issue) with an extend...
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The iPod Shuffle is a miracle of commerce, but it can also be an aesthetic tool. Remove a piece of music from its original context and surround it by songs with which it shares little or nothing, a...
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A pop quiz: What is fertilizer? Where does it come from? If both your answers involve a cow, count yourself about 70 years behind the times. The cattle and horse manure of old gave way long ago to ...
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Fecundity
Our Critic's Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of June 4th, 2007
