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

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Outside the Asylum

Van Gogh’s Irises and the Search for Violet

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Dirty old town!

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“Here the Autumn Is Just Like in Kyiv”: Sergei Bongart Pays His Respects at Forest Lawn

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Post date September 29, 2024
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A few years ago I shared my translations of poems by the Odesa-born Victor Mall (1901-1989), a former student of Kazimir Malevich who, after settling in Los Angeles, built a career as a graphic designer. Mall, it turns out, wasn’t the only visual artist among the Russophone Angelenos with a sideline in verse. In fact, […]
“Here the Autumn Is Just Like in Kyiv”: Sergei Bongart Pays His Respects at Forest Lawn

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A delightful introduction to Elizabeth Bowen

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Post date September 17, 2024
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Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen

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As time goes by

Birthdays by Todd Matson

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Schmaltzig

You have heard of Kafka’s work being known only because of its popularization by his middlebrow friend, Max Brod. Karl Kraus, the Viennese satirist, said, “Geist auf Brod ist Schmaltz,” which is to say, Brod couldn’t even appreciate what it is he was purveying. The high things of the spirit, mediated by Max Brod, are […]
Schmaltzig