All posts tagged "twentieth century"
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Books
Book Review: René Blum and the Ballets Russes by Judith Chazin-Bennahum
December 19, 2022All of Blum’s many accomplishments were bracketed between the anti-Semitic turmoil of the Dreyfus Affair that...
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Biography
Book Review: From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847-1928 by Julie P. Gelardi
November 24, 2022Following this betrayal, the Romanov dynasty was swept off the stage of history. Many of the...
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Classics
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
October 22, 2022Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
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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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History
Book Review: Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America by Erika Lee and Judy Yung
October 15, 2022For those who fell in the “only” 7 percent category, the decision to deport them was...
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History
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley
August 17, 2022James Bradley doesn't like Theodore Roosevelt. Let's get that clear from the get-go. Nor does he...
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Fiction Reviews
Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
August 5, 2022Sing in me, Muse quotes Homer (the original one). "Jacqueline, my muse, I speak to you...
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Biography
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
July 31, 2022She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania,...
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Art
Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, & Culture of the Russian Silver Age by John E. Bowlt
July 21, 2022Writers of the caliber of Anton Chekov, Alexsander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, visionary artists like Mikhail...
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Biography
Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
March 26, 2022Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...
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