Mireille Silcoff

Maybe my Gen X is showing, but I wonder if I might not understand the millennial interpretation of “anti-capitalist.” Or perhaps I might not get it enough to understand how Daphné B. — a writer from Montreal with a new book on getting through lockdown while buying makeup online from Sephora, losing herself in YouTube beauty…

I think science may lack the data the soul possesses.—Katherine Cook Briggs If men came like shoes, with the most vital data as to size and style marked outside the box, many a cramping misfit could be avoided.—Isabel Briggs Myers In the last years of the nineteenth century, Katharine Cook Briggs did something remarkable with her living…

A few years ago, while researching a magazine article, I began having conversations with Michael Daley, a self-styled art conservation watchdog. Daley has used the term “blockbuster restoration” to describe our era’s increasingly common practice of over-cleaning and touching up master works by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci or Titian in a way designed to create exciting “before and after”…