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“I Stroll Quietly Among the Graves”: Viktoria Yankovskaya’s “Will and Testament”

Viktoria Yankovskaya (1909-1996) was born in Vladivostok, in the Russian Far East, to the family of famed Machurian tiger hunter and, later, Korean resort owner, Yuri Yankovsky (1879-1956). Like his father, the Polish naturalist Michał Jankowski (1841-1912), Yuri had an ambivalent attitude towards Russia, speaking the language but never fully identifying with the culture. The […]

“I Stroll Quietly Among the Graves”: Viktoria Yankovskaya’s “Will and Testament”
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“The Dybbuk” and “The Whole Shebang”

It’s not every month that a poet—let alone a simple versifier like yours truly—gets to see his work in print in not one, but two major journals of thought. Yet this is the precisely the catbird seat on which I have alighted. The May 29 issue of The New York Review of Books carries “The […]

“The Dybbuk” and “The Whole Shebang”
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Surreal short stories from Slovakia

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Good to be the King?

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Art and Photographic History

Amazing Colour Portrait

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Art and Photographic History

Fantastic Frantisek Kupka

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Classics Poetry

Carole King’s Tapestry

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Poetry Psychoanalysis

Repression and Transgression

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Film Literature Poetry

Brilliant Film then read Andrew Motion’s Biography of Keats

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Under a sunshade in a tranquil garden