Monday, October 28, 2019

Light, motley, whimsical

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Korney Chukovsky, one of Russia’s most popular writers for children, died 50 years ago today. He was also an influential literary critic and...
Monday, October 21, 2019

The rush of what is said

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Jack Kerouac, author of one of America’s most celebrated novels, On the Road , died 50 years ago today. He is remembered particularly for th...
Monday, October 14, 2019

Couldn’t you get married now?

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‘Washing up after tea Jack [Franklin] expressed his regret that I was unmarried. “Oh, Auntie, such a pity you are wasted. You would make suc...
Thursday, October 10, 2019

The Germans are here

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Eighty years ago today, a young Polish girl, Mary Berg, was turning 15, yet she was far from celebrating, for her world had very recently be...
Monday, October 7, 2019

I have been to the Commons

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‘I have been to the Commons and found the interior so rich and beautiful as the exterior - the House itself tho’ not over large - of fine ca...
Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Gandhi’s London diary

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‘What led to the intention of proceeding to London? The scene opens about the end of April. Before the intention of coming to London for the...
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Saturday, September 28, 2019

Dunlap, painter and playwright

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‘Glenn my Landlord comes to tell me that he will have his two daughters painted in Oil, the Girls so preferring, and I am to do them at $25 ...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

A director’s loneliness

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Happy 70th birthday Pedro Almodóvar. He is surely the most famous of Spanish filmmakers alive today, and second only to Luis Buñuel in impor...