So many of you are writing in to inquire as to why we have not commented on the recent double dose of Jean Nouvel in the New York Times (perhaps we are "useless, slatternly fops all aswell with our own debauchery," as one of you kindly suggested) that we thought we would actually stir from our summertime torpor, if for but a moment, to do so. As we see it from here, he got a nice sloppy one from Nicolai—writes one Reader, "Sounds like Nouvel just gave Nicolai a woody... Muscular industrial landscapes, Virile landscapes, erotic lipstick red... whew...did it just get a bit hot in here?"—and a pretty sound spanking—"my heart sank"—from Kimmelman.

All in all, not an unenjoyable outing for the Frenchman.

· On the Mississippi, A Vision Steeped in an Industrial Past [NYT]
· A Heart of Darkness in the Cityof Light [NYT]

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