New Gallery Update

Aeqai visited several galleries as they have changed, including names, locations, staff, space, interiors, art, artists, buyers, technology, services, COVID issues and focus.  Learn more about new updates. I started with Indian Hill Gallery, 9475 Loveland-Madeira Road, Cincinnati, Ohio  45242.  Russ Adams, an accountant who lives in a farmhouse in Morrow, was a regular customer […]

“The Smash-Up” by Ali Benjamin

Of the many novels published so far in 2021, few stand out for overall excellence; many are overpraised and veer into the whiny.  Ali Benjamin’s first novel for adults, “The Smash-Up”, is a fine exception.  Based upon Edith Wharton’s “Ethan Frome”, which I happened to have reread just last year, which is a very clever […]

“Fake Accounts” by Lauren Oyler

Although I am leery of, and usually bored by, novels about the internet, a world in which I have little to zero interest, Lauren Oyler’s debut novel “Fake Accounts” is a real exception.  Oyler, for starts, is a brilliant writer, and the worlds she describes–of fake identities and obsessive reading of a variety of social […]