‘Rufus Porter’s Curious World: Art and Invention in America, 1815-1860’ Review: Products of a Failed Polymath
A museum profile of the eccentric inventor, painter, publisher and proselytizer whose endeavors rarely succeeded.
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‘The Invention of Surgery’ Review: Honing Their Craft
Operations were once like commando raids. Surgeons got in and out with maximum haste while cutting off as few of their assistants’ fingers as possible.
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‘A Game of Birds and Wolves’ Review: The Invention of the Raspberry
Working in an office block in Liverpool, young Wrens—members of the Women’s Royal Naval Service—re-enacted sea battles on a chalk-gridded linoleum floor. The anti-U-boat tactics they analyzed and …
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‘Edison’ Review: The Invention of Modernity
In October 1929, Thomas Edison was a sleep-deprived octogenarian, deaf as an adder—“I haven’t heard a bird sing since I was twelve years old.” Having sworn off public speaking, he was reluctant to …
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Rusty Brown by Chris Ware review – a treasure trove of invention
It begins in Omaha, Nebraska, on a snowy weekday in 1975. The title character, a put-upon eight-year-old schoolboy convinced he is endowed with extraordinary powers of hearing, occupies our attention …
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BWW Review: Mac Wellman’s mini-masterpiece THE INVENTION OF TRAGEDY at The Flea Theater
How to describe the oratorically dense, frequently hysterical and mind-buzzingly creative The Invention of Tragedy? How does Shakespeare sound to a young child? “Let there be a dragon of trees and …
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