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High life

An elegy for New York

28 September 2019

9:00 AM

28 September 2019

9:00 AM

New York

The master of the love letter to New York, E.B. White, eloquently described the city as a place that can ‘bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy’. Like many of us, he believed that the place would last and that it would always matter. White was an optimist, sophisticated and thoroughly American.

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