It was, she decided, close to ideal, owing to its medium altitude, gentle slopes and unself-conscious charm.

FORBES: Flocons de Sel: A French Alpine Gourmet Sanctuary

He incarnates this character so unself-consciously that glum Eric seems like teen-age despair apotheosized Everykid as the most beautiful of losers.

NEWYORKER: The Crow

This is an elegiac Western that somehow manages to be as funny and rambunctious and exciting as the unself-conscious genre classics of yesteryear.

NEWYORKER: Wild Bill

It is Fay's innocence as much as her unself-conscious beauty that ensnares men, on whom she has at times a literally fatal effect.

ECONOMIST: New novels (3)

Eye and hand fevering after the unself.

ECONOMIST: Avigdor Arikha, painter of life, died on April 29th, aged 81