In our morning reading: thoughts on John Wray’s new novel and Cat Power’s new album, a zine for an excellent cause, and more.
On Love and Catherine Deneuve
On Love and Catherine Deneuve by Rachel Veroff In the 1967 French film, Belle de Jour, there is a scene where Catherine Deneuve, age 23 (in both the movie and in real life), approaches an address on the rue Jean de Saumur, in Paris—a clandestine address, which she desires to enter. She is belted up in a rigid, sporty Yves Saint Laurent coat, her copious blond tresses tucked tightly up and out of sight, beneath a knitted cap so elegant, […]