Art and Culture

The 20th century can almost seem wonderful when you remember that Frida Kahlo had an affair with Leon Trotsky.It wasn’t wonderful, of course — it was a century you wouldn’t wish on anyone. But it did toss together some powerful…
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“At Happy Mediums Café, there’s nothing edible on the menu.” – The New York Times Source link
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Apple seems to be very worried about the Department of Justice’s new antitrust lawsuit, which landed Thursday with the backing of 16 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia—and you know what? It should be. Last…
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This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I never start a novel knowing where I’m going. I don’t write linearly, and not in clear, numbered drafts, from a beginning to an end. I gather and cut and gather…
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Ms. Hejinian savored her place among the literary mavericks. “We attended and participated in poetry readings that took place two or three or sometimes four times a week, talked until late at night at bars, launched literary journals,…
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Laurent de Brunhoff, the French artist who nurtured his father’s creation, a beloved, very Gallic and very civilized elephant named Babar, for nearly seven decades — sending him, among other places, into a haunted castle, to New York…
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For some, the most-nominated people are the ones who most “deserve” to win. That’s an awfully clinical way of looking at this! Ever heard of…
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It is a sunny afternoon in Taormina, Sicily, and two wealthy couples on holiday are drinking Aperol spritz on a balcony overlooking the sea. Harper, who runs on anxiety and guilt, says she has trouble sleeping because of “everything…
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Silently towering into the grey Berlin sky, the latest addition to the German capital’s skyline is easily missed by passengers passing along the Unter den Linden boulevard below. Eight statues of Old Testament prophets, each more than 3…
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