All posts tagged "1930s"
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Art
Art Review: Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life, Art Institute of Chicago
December 26, 2022Stasis, whether in art, life, economics or political culture, was distasteful and to be done away...
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Books
Book Review: Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
December 25, 2022The theme of making a life choice between love or ambition has been a staple of...
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Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
October 20, 2022Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
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Fiction Reviews
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
August 14, 2022Even so, to hold The Lacuna in one’s hand, to read it, is to witness and...
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Architecture
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
August 8, 2022Mawer’s The Glass Room is a genuine intellectual achievement—a breath-taking story of love and its loss,...
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History
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
August 7, 2022It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the...
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History
The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia by Tim Tsouliadis
July 9, 2022Readers of faint heart beware when embarking upon this superb work of history. So many stories...
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History
Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman
July 3, 2022They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young...
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Economics
American-Made by Nick Taylor
June 27, 2022Meanwhile, walls of buildings were rising, mud roads were being paved, library books were being delivered...
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History
Notes From Italy: Looking Back at Mussolini
June 12, 2022Mussolini was not the only dictator of his time. In his Europe, in a time of...
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