The Joy of Bricks
Anthony Lane explores the history and future of Lego, visits a Lego lab in Billund Sweden—and visits with Norman Mailer, who has built a giant Lego city in his living room.
"I find it heartbreaking to comb through the bricks of my childhood—not because the click of stud into hole promises a Proustian retrieval of lost bliss but simply because I am touched to discover that even when I was six my engineering concepts were crap."