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by Pranab Bardhan: Gérard Roland came to Berkeley only around the turn of this century. He grew up in Belgium, was a radical student, and after the student movements of
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By Bill Benzon: What is the blues? It is a mood, a feeling, a sensibility. Feeling blue. Feeling blue? It is a musical form, existing in its own tradition, but
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Maria Rubin in The NY Review of Books: IT IS DAUNTING to write a biography of Tolstoy. Hundreds or even thousands of books have already put each detail of his life
Continue readingA Genius on the Wrong Side of History: Tolstoy’s Conflicts and Contradictions
Describing ourselves in the language of neurobiology has got to be one of the stranger trends in our medical age. I’m depressed because my serotonin levels are low. I cried
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility— A Gentleman in Moscow is a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of
Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam & William T Williams — all of them are key figures in the history of abstraction. The presentation marks the first time the artists’ works will
The world’s biggest colonial power prided itself on being a liberal democracy. But liberal imperialism gained resilience from its ability to absorb and neutralize objections. Was this part of the
Continue readingThe British Empire Was Much Worse Than You Realize
Peter Conrad at The Guardian: This ingenious final volume of an epic biography illuminates the imagery in the artist’s work during Europe’s war years and his complicated love life. John
Girl with a Pearl Earring is a historical novel set in 17th-century Holland. It’s a fictional account of the model and the painting done by a local painter. Novelist Tracy
In November of 1945, Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies was published in London. That same month, Charles de Gaulle was elected to lead the provisional government in
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Saudi Arabia hosted the Middle East’s first digital art forum and brought together Saudi and international artists in a celebration of contemporary culture -the digital art forum brought together a
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