All posts tagged "twentieth century"
Non-Fiction Reviews
Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, & Culture of the Russian Silver Age by John E. Bowlt
March 20, 2025Writers of the caliber of Anton Chekov, Alexsander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, visionary artists like Mikhail...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
November 20, 2024Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...
Art
American Mythologies: Grant Wood at the RNC
November 18, 2024But, the painting tells us, to impose order is also to fictionalize, to distort. It’s a...
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Books
Book Review: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
November 1, 2024The course of Curtis’ campaign to document the lives and life style of the Native American...
Non-Fiction Reviews
After the Victorians by A.N. Wilson
August 1, 2024Like its predecessor, The Victorians, this book is a portrait of an age, rather than a...
Books
Book Review: George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
June 17, 2024George Frost Kennan was one of the most influential of all American diplomats, as well as...
Dance
Book Review: René Blum and the Ballets Russes by Judith Chazin-Bennahum
April 29, 2024All of Blum’s many accomplishments were bracketed between the anti-Semitic turmoil of the Dreyfus Affair that...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847-1928 by Julie P. Gelardi
April 4, 2024Following this betrayal, the Romanov dynasty was swept off the stage of history. Many of the...
Classics
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
March 7, 2024Pasternak 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
March 4, 2024Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
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