Hampstead-raised historian Orlando Figes banned from Russia
Russia's foreign ministry has sanctioned Hampstead-raised historian Orlando Figes, claiming he "demonises" Russia and…
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Russia's foreign ministry has sanctioned Hampstead-raised historian Orlando Figes, claiming he "demonises" Russia and…
SIEMON SCAMELL-KATZ is an artist who looks—as Eva Figes writes of Claude Monet adrift among his water lilies in the blue-gray hour before dawn in her 1983 novel Light—“at, not through. The bright skin of things, the shimmering envelope.” Scamell-Katz’s exquisitely colored abstract paintings on aluminum are a bit like that shimmering pond in Giverny: At first, they are subtly reflective, sensuous. They change dramatically with the angle of one’s gaze, their proximity to a window, the time of day, the weather.Their content is determined by the landscape from which they are drawn. Hi...
The subtitle of Peter Orner's 2016 book of essays Am I Alone Here? is Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live. Apparently, Orner...
The end of Pantheon and Metropolitan augers a strange and unchallenging world of ideas.
Silence is ultimately the opposite of what any decent book or book publisher stands for.