Following a decade marked by the horrors of war and on the cusp of another that would secure America’s global ascendancy, Provincetown’s Forum 49 was more than an art exhibition […]
SOCIAL STUDIES
Ulrich Beck’s Prescient ‘Risk Society’
When living under a state of emergency becomes the norm
In a matter of weeks, reality has lost its familiar form. Invisible threats fill the air, smearing door handles and packaging, reshaping even the most minor intimacies — the touch […]
BOOK REVIEW
Paul Weidlinger: A Brilliant Engineer Split in Two by Exile
The Restless Hungarian: Modernism, Madness, and the American Dream by Tom Weidlinger
Perched on stilts, the Weidlinger house on Wellfleet’s Higgins Pond peers out from the surrounding green like a wide pinhole camera. This camera-like impression echoes the Marcel Breuer house nearby, […]
HISTORY
Mary Heaton Vorse on the Marriage of Thought and Action
A Provincetown social critic who turned her eye on the world
In Time and the Town, her 1942 chronicle about Provincetown, Mary Heaton Vorse lovingly recounts her experience with this changeable “end of land” surrounded by sea. Far from quaint, this […]
