May 06, 2022
Week in review
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On Alabama cave art & translation.
On Alabama cave art & translation.
On Nôtre Dame de Paris, Donatello & Yuri Felsen.
On Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev.
On Robespierre, Shirley Jackson & duels in literature.
On the Sistine Chapel, William Walton & Alexander Griboedov.
On the Russian writer Nadezhda Mandelstam.
On the political and moral lessons of Fyodor Dostoevsky.
On Nikolai Gogol, charlatans & the history of magic.
On the legacy of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s seminal dystopian novel.
On Pushkin, Bach, the passive voice & more.