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Elena Bowes

New York-London design & culture writer of a certain vintage looking for meaning and wholeness in life

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November 14th, 2017 | Author Q&As

Joan Didion – The Center Will Not Hold

Whether you know American writer Joan Didion’s restrained, razor-sharp writing or not, this new documentary, The Center Will Not Hold, directed by her nephew Griffin Dunne, detailing  both Didion’s triumphs and heartbreaks,…

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November 11th, 2017 | Places

Passage to India with Lisa Fine

Julia goes to Durham, I go to Delhi. That sounded so perfect last spring  when I was dreading my youngest child’s departure for college.The email from elite New York travel…

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October 16th, 2017 | PersonalPlaces

Notes on Manhattan

Love seems to dictate where I live. I moved to London three decades ago to be with my then boyfriend. And I’m moving back across the Atlantic now for the…

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September 22nd, 2017 | Places

What’s Cooking in New York this Autumn

Autumn in New York, the air is crisp, the sky a cloudless, cerulean blue, anything seems possible. It’s back to school, work, life. And entertainment. “The New Season” came out…

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