Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde
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Festival of the Earth: Rabindranath Tagore’s Environmental Vision
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Sudden Onset
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Jays, Films, and Georg Steller
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Stanley Kubrick: The Legacy of a Cinematic Legend
August 13, 2024Many continue to see the director’s films as cold and cynical, as being somehow stripped of...
The Life of R.K. Narayan
August 12, 2024R.K. Narayan Narayan’s fiction rarely addresses political issues or high philosophy. He writes with grace and...
Goethe and Tagore – Unexpected Interests
August 10, 2024Goethe and Tagore, separated by time and contexts, but joined in their great felicity over the...
A Toast to Tristan Egolf
August 10, 2024He would furiously lead anti-war marches weekly on our courthouse steps. He improvised chants and picket...
Frau Braun and The Tiger of Auschwitz
August 9, 2024The principal accused was an Auschwitz commandant, one Wilhelm Boger, whose sobriquet was “The Tiger of...
Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom byRobert C. Williams
August 9, 2024Horace Greeley is a familiar name, but how much do today’s Americans know about him? Most...