All posts tagged "1920s"
Art
Art Review: Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life, Art Institute of Chicago
August 30, 2025Stasis, whether in art, life, economics or political culture, was distasteful and to be done away...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
June 23, 2025Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
June 20, 2025Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman
March 2, 2025They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young...
Politics
Notes From Italy: Looking Back at Mussolini
February 6, 2025Mussolini was not the only dictator of his time. In his Europe, in a time of...




