Set in the context of the two preceding pieces, it completes a portrait of the moral and ethical intricacies involved in the Occupation of France and the retribution against collaborators in the first weeks after liberation. If it were up to me, I would reissue these three pieces separately ...
The result, shown to the world on December 7th, has proved the truth of Hugo’s words. At a time when history and culture are under attack, denigrated, deconstructed, even destroyed, when individual freedoms are threatened and personal aspirations belittled, when repressive systems and ideologies...
Above, left, a 1935 portrait of Gertrude Stein by Carl Van Vechten; right, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas arriving in New York aboard the French Line’s SS Champlain in 1934. (Library of Congress/AP)Much of America’s literary world was abuzz about the arrival of Gertrude Stein in ...
a portrait of the author as a young arse music of my mind (whether I like it or not) the semi-obligatory album of the year type thing (2022 edition) bounders in oiks’ clothing – the reign of the ordinary bloke gateways to horror: the watch house by robert westall church, going* ...
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