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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. Sinclair Lewis

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Chekhov and Tolstoy

Chekhov and Tolstoy

There are many photographs of Chekhov, but I’ve never come across this one before.

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I’m Not There - film review

The bad news first: the film is far too long. It should have been cut from its present running time of 135 minutes to around 90. On the other hand, didn’t Dylan himself once make a film that ran for 5 hours?
The film, by Director Todd Haynes, is a rumination inspired by the various lives [...]

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The Clintons

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Not Just Bibles

BLDG BLOG reports (with photographs) on the bookshop constructed inside a converted Dominican church in Maastricht, which has won an architectural interiors prize.
. . . it achieves a weirdly ironic overlap in which two cultural spaces, both on the verge of extinction, at least in Western Europe – and I’m referring here to the [...]

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Novice Monks in Myanmar (Burma)

 

From the work of Eric Lafforgue
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