Patti Smith (Boat to Fire Island), Robert Mapplethorpe, circa 1971-74 LE BATEAU IVRE Comme je descendais des Fleuves impassibles, Je ne me sentis plus guidé par les haleurs : Des Peaux-Rouges criards les avaient pris pour cibles, Les ayant cloués nus aux poteaux de couleurs. J’étais insoucieux de tous les équipages, Porteur de blés […]
The Drunken Boat

Book Reviews Classics Literature

Steamships in the Postmodern

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Post date September 29, 2024
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The Lagoon (1897), Typhoon (1902), and The Secret Sharer (1910), by Joseph Conrad

Classics Literature Poetry politics

King Claudius by Cavafy

This poem by Cavafy (in my translation) has an unconventional (to say the least) take on the character of Hamlet’s uncle Claudius and the plot of Shakespeare’s play: My minds turns to distant places.I walk along the streets of Elsinore,and round its squares, and I rememberits saddest story, that unfortunate kingkilled by his nephewfor imaginary […]
King Claudius by Cavafy

Art and Photographic History Classics Poetry

How Great Thou Art

How Great Thou Art

Book Reviews Classics Film

The book behind the Hitchcock Classic

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Post date March 13, 2024
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The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White (filmed by Hitchcock as ‘The Lady Vanishes’)