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The vanished world
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Monsieur and Madame Louis Cahen d’Anvers never liked Renoir’s portrait of their eight-year-old daughter; it was Madame Cahen d’Anvers’s lover who chose Renoir over a more fashionable society portraitist; they…
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Epic Failure
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Growing up on, and still happily consuming, American popular culture, my brain’s first association when it sees the letters e, p, i and c, is to read epic failure. And I hear the bass rumble…
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Underground rave, literary
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We are all explorers. Last week was Easter weekend. I’m not much of a Christian, but where I’m from (Latviaaaa!) it means family gatherings, eggs dyed with the first spring…
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« Exile is a form of action »
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The Bibliothèque Tourguenieff, the oldest Russian-language lending-library outside Russia, is on the second floor of an anonymous apartment building in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. The library was originally founded…
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~ Potpourri: Amsterdam
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A place where everything that cannot be endured aboveground finds its refuge.
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~ Potpourri: Paris
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Copi channels his fascination with lowlives, queer people, immigrants and other outcasts
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~ Potpourri: Florence
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Langer, the Europeanist, the practical pacifist, the man who inaugurated Italian environmentalism and inspired European environmentalism.
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