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Letter requesting a translation of Shalva Amisulashvili's book and translators' pay in the USSR
A letter from Yevgeny Yevtushenko to the writer Vladimir Sokolov:. “...I am sending you my old friend Shalva Amisulashvili, a fervent admirer of yours. His book is already quite ready; Mezhirov, Lukonin, Maksimov and Vinokurov have translated it. The book will come out in a month. The “Gomecari Pictures” must
Observations · Society · Humour
The Kennedy Center Gracefully Becomes, Gracefully Becomes the Trump-Kennedy Center
Yes, Donald Trump has added his own name to that of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. And, what is more, he has appended it at the front. The centre's board of trustees, of which Trump is chairman, has voted to rename
Art · People
On the Seventh Floor: Seven Hours of Happiness
On the 4706th floor: very strange goings-on. The English Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, “The 4706th Floor”, 1958.
NB! · The East · Geography · Nature
Senzu-no-Kiridoshi, a narrow stone staircase cut into the rock on the island of Izu Oshima in Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Museums · Science · Paris · People
Researchers reconstruct Georges Clemenceau's microbiome from his toothbrush kept in a museum
Georges Clemenceau's Toothbrush Kept Its Secrets for a Century. French museum curators never cease to astonish. This time with their scholarly labours. Having examined the toothbrush of the Prime Minister of France in 1906 to 1909 and again in 1917 to 1920, researchers have managed to reconstruct his
NB! · Observations · Humour
A cassette tape in the photo shows how much of the year is left
This year has about this much left. We shan't be rewinding
Faith · Books · Rome
The Vatican's publishing house has issued a new edition of Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection's "The Practice of the Presence of God", which, in the words of Pope Leo XIV, shaped his own path to knowing the Lord and loving Him
The Vatican's publishing house has issued a new edition of Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection's "The Practice of the Presence of God", which, in the words of Pope Leo XIV, shaped his own path to knowing the Lord and loving Him. The Pontiff has
Art · London · Observations · Society
The Imperial Winter Egg turns out to be a fake made to a private commission in the 1990s
Remember how everyone was recently discussing the sale at Christie's of an imperial Fabergé egg for £22 million? It has emerged that the "Imperial Winter Egg" is a fake. Moreover, the maker himself has confirmed that he produced two such eggs on a private commission in
Faith · Observations · Society
Christian theology on a call-in remark that God is unaware of the churches
If God Exists, He Does Not Know That People on Earth Have Split into Various Churches. This very strange, even paradoxical, statement was heard during a live Q&A. The Christian Church was founded neither by the apostles, nor by communities of believers, nor by historical circumstance, but by
Observations · Society
Caption under Obama's portrait in the White House presidential gallery under Trump
Nothing speaks of confidence in one's own legacy quite like a string of insults immortalised on a memorial plaque beneath a predecessor's name. American political culture never ceases to astonish, and the Trump years have brought a great deal that is new. Take, for instance, those
Faith · Cinema · People
Alla Nazimova and her 1922 film “Salome” based on Wilde’s play
Stills from the 1922 film Salomé. The film, based on the play by Oscar Wilde, was directed by Charles Bryant, and today it is regarded as one of the boldest and most radical works of the early cinema. The title role was played by Alla Nazimova, one of the most