Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange|Essays

England's Next Top Model

In The Duchess, the gratuitous sex scenes were the least of the film's problems.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Waiting On the Dream

I wrote a piece on the (lack of) development in Midtown West , also known as the Hudson Yards.

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Kroon Hall

With its vaulted roof, communal spaces, and casual materials, the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies’ new Kroon Hall is designed to float Yale into the 21st century, training the world’s future green leaders along the way.

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Cold Comforts

I can't but write about the objects in Summer Hours, Revolutionary Road, and Frozen River.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Numbers Game

In an attempt to skirt around the Landmakrs Preservation Commission, modernists in my neighborhood are declaring their taste through their house numbers.

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Handmade

I found Floyd Bennett Field, the decomissioned 1930s airfield on the border of Brooklyn and Jamaica Bay, to be a very strange place.

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Sitting Pretty

Design Within Reach is selling a reissue of a Jens Risom chair for $1100.

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Little Dictators

Zhang Yimou's Ju Dou makes a strong commentary on parenting.

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Nostalgia Trip

I can't resist reading Colm Tóbín's new novel called Brooklyn.

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Battle Lines

In Waltz With Bashir, director and protagonist Ari Folman makes amazing use of animation to tell a most unfunny tale of recovered memory and national guilt.

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In Spite of Myself

I loved the Betsy-Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace for their message of feminism, love, and class.

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Child's Play

Unlike the stories documented in the film Nursery University, my experience of enrolling my child in preschool in New York City was completely different.