Year in review:
Articles
Rosario Candela and the New York Apartment: 1927–37 by David Netto, Paul Pennoyer, and Paul Goldberger. Rizzoli, 304 pp., $45.
Nothing so good will be built again in New York City, not for the billionaires nor anybody else.
The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin and William C. McKeown (ed.) University of Toronto Press, 1,040 pp., $150.
Ruskin was writing, between the lines, against Victorian England’s industrial society, to save his homeland from a revolution he knew it deserved.
Nightshining: A Memoir in Four Floods by Jennifer Kabat. Milkweed Editions, 360 pp., $20.
Like Shakespeare’s Prospero—who ultimately abjures his “rough magic” and drowns his book of spells—Kabat implies that addressing climate crisis requires not merely technological innovation but philosophical reorientation.
Lower East Side Yearbook: A Living Archive, curated by Ali Rosa-Salas, is on view at Abrons Arts Center through January 6, 2026.
The Settlement’s communitarian, social-reformist spirit embedded itself in the Lower East Side, including in its architecture.
