A Navigator to the Publications That Appeared on the Channel in May

A navigator to the publications that appeared on the channel in May. This month we restored vivid events of the past, discussed pressing problems, got to grips with terminology, and much else besides.

Brigitte Bardot on fame, modern cinema and feminism
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The menu of Leo XIV's first supper with the cardinals, on the tastes of the new Pope
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The Battle of Grengam, or how the might of the Russian fleet was born
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A chronicle of the Peace of Nystad, day by day to the end of the Great Northern War
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“The Cabal of Hypocrites”: the fate of Bulgakov's play about the life of Molière
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In memory of the great ballet master Yury Grigorovich
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How the French linguist Robert Edmund Gauthiot was called up for the First World War straight from the Russian Pamirs
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Diderot and Catherine II: the story of a relationship
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What about the money, Arnault? On the funding of the Louvre's ambitious (and dubious) projects
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Students vs ChatGPT: why teachers in the USA are being accused of using AI
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What is Pidgin English, and why are key Western media outlets published in it?
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And do not miss the new episode of my podcast: this time we talk about Svetlana Zharnikova and her controversial but brilliant theories.

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

A Navigator to the Publications That Appeared on the Channel in May

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s