From the November 2023 Issue Requiems for the Fallen Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance By Jeremy Eichler LR
From the June 2018 Issue Their Struggle Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century By Konrad H Jarausch LR
From the March 2015 Issue The Dachau Indictment Hitler’s First Victims and One Man’s Race for Justice By Timothy W Ryback LR
From the May 2014 Issue To the Victor, the Spoils The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order, 1916–1931 By Adam Tooze LR
From the September 2012 Issue Buddenbrooks on the Ruhr Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm By Harold James LR
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Paul Gauguin kept house with a teenage ‘wife’ in French Polynesia, islands whose culture he is often accused of ransacking for his art.
@StephenSmithWDS asks if Gauguin is still worth looking at.
Stephen Smith - Art of Rebellion
Stephen Smith: Art of Rebellion - Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux
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‘I have fond memories of discussing Lorca and the state of Andalusian theatre with Antonio Banderas as Lauren Bacall sat on the dressing-room couch.’
@henryhitchings on Simon Russell Beale.
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Henry Hitchings: The Play’s the Thing - A Piece of Work: Playing Shakespeare & Other Stories by Simon Russell Beale
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We are saddened to hear of the death of Fredric Jameson.
Here, from 1983, is Terry Eagleton’s review of The Political Unconscious.
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Terry Eagleton: Supermarket of the Mind - The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act by Fredric Jameson
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