The International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York has mounted ‘Roman Vishniac Rediscovered’ (through May 5). The title misleads. For the most part, Robin Cembalest reports on…
Few books read once in adolescence made as permanent an impression on me as Frank Norris’s novel, The Octopus: A Story of California (1901). Wheat farmers squeezed into…
The resurgence of piracy marks the periodic declines of civilisation, or of empire when the two words aren’t synonyms. Even Moamar Khadafy[1], when he’d achieved the status…
When I take visitors to Cambridge around Harvard Yard, I pause outside Memorial Church, point to the imposing building opposite it and ask if they know what they’re…
If you have the slightest interest in classical music, you must buy Arturo Toscanini: The Complete RCA Collection. Sony has reissued this 84 CD and one DVD box…
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