Happy Birthday, Nikolai
Dennis Johnson
An announcement from the Deputy Speaker of the Ukrainian parliament has made it official: Celebrations to mark the 200th birthday of Nikolai Gogol have begun. “Starting from today, eight cities… Read more »
An announcement from the Deputy Speaker of the Ukrainian parliament has made it official: Celebrations to mark the 200th birthday of Nikolai Gogol have begun. “Starting from today, eight cities… Read more »
When D.H. Lawrence showed the manuscript for his new book to his printer, as he later recounted in a letter to Maria and Aldous Huxley, the printer became “very cross,… Read more »
The discovery of an ancient Roman “joke book” shows Romans weren’t the “pompous, bridge-building toga wearers” we thought they were, says Cambridge classics professor Mary Beard. According to a report… Read more »
Do we finally know what the Bard looked like? After three years of testing and research, experts have now concluded that a painting that has hung in a private home… Read more »
Norway yesterday launched a year of celebrations in honor of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Knut Hamsun, its Nobel Prize-winning native son who died destitute and disgraced because… 2 / Read more »
The newspaper Perfil reported on a current proposal in the Argentine Congress to repatriate the remains of Jorge Luis Borges and bury him in the family vault at the ornate… 6 / Read more »
A fascinating article by Ian Sample in yesterday’s Guardian explores the theory that literature does not merely reflect society but in fact moulds it. Psychologists at the University of Missouri,… 2 / Read more »
The last time there was an economic meltdown in the UK — during the eighties, aka the Thatcher era — with factories closing, unemployement skyrocketing, inflation spiking, public spending plummeting,… 2 / Read more »
Researchers in Warsaw, Poland, announced on Tuesday that they had discovered the remains of Nicolaus Copernicus, the great 16th-century scientist and writer (and priest) who first posited that the sun… Read more »
Monday was “the 80th anniversary of the publication of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf (My Struggle),” notes Carlin Romano in a Philadelphia Inquirer commentary. “You didn’t miss anything. No critical panels.… Read more »