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While tensions in Kazakhstan continue to grow, the world is trying to understand what is behind the unrest. Under authoritarian rule, the former Soviet republic has escaped the global spotlight for decades.
This review addresses Radio Modernisms: Features, Cultures and the BBC (edited by Aasiya Lodhi and Amanda Wrigley), an essay collection which captures the entanglements of the feature—a radiogenic art form, popular at the mid-century BBC, that blended dramatic, documentary and musical attributes—with the currents of literary modernism that swirled around and through the BBC from the late 1920s until roughly the mid-1960s. While attending to the frequently experimental aspects of modernist radio features, this collection successfully frames the broadness of “modernism” as a mid-century ...
In her short, tumultuous life, Mary Butts produced work admired by Bryher, Marianne Moore, and John Ashbery. Why isn’t she better known?
Houses, streets, factories — modernist architecture has many faces. In 2019, the year the Bauhaus celebrates its centenary, architecture lovers can take a "Grand Tour of Modernism" through Germany.
The above is not intended as a piece of Protestant triumphalism. Rather, it is a call for more self-awareness regarding the matter of the problems of our present age.