“Throughout these tumultuous decades, artists have sought to express themselves in harrowing circumstances. John J. Curley provides a lucid summary of the era and unique insights into famous and unknown artists.” Continue reading Global Art and the Cold War by John J. Curley @ nyjb
“Harryhausen: The Movie Posters is infotainment in the best sense of the word.” Continue reading Pop Culture Week: Harryhausen: The Movie Posters, by Richard Holliss @ nyjb
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“Exemplary Departures” by Gabrielle Wittkop brings together four stories of inevitable death. Continue reading Exemplary Departures by Gabrielle Wittkop @ NYJB
“Spells by Michel de Ghelderode offers a collection of stories both beautiful and loathsome. He represents literature that must be wrestled with to fully appreciate. . . . [it] is literature distilled from despair, nostalgia, and sickness.” Continue reading Translation Tuesdays: Spells by Michel de Ghelderode @ nyjb
Alan Moore’s “Jerusalem” is a turgid, overwritten slab of pretentiousness. Continue reading Science Fiction Week: Jerusalem by Alan Moore @ nyjb
From ancient Greece to the modern globalized economy, Kurz distills the essence of various schools of thought and the personalities who made them. Continue reading Economic Thought: A Brief History by Heinz D. Kurz @ nyjb
Part backlash, part meditation, “Nature Poem” by Tommy Pico is an urban hipster’s struggle to write on a subject he feels is “stereotypical, reductive, and boring.” Continue reading Nature Poem by Tommy Pico @ NYJB
The photographs are instantly recognizable, the name is not. Continue reading Harry Benson: Persons of Interest, by Harry Benson @ NYJB
Violent, erotic, dreamlike, and weird Continue reading Translation Tuesdays: The Absolute Gravedigger, by Vítěslav Nezval @ NYJB
