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Colleagues at Vox medii aevi announce the publication of the book "Parnassian Mockingbird"
Colleagues at Vox medii aevi have announced the publication of the book "Parnassian Mockingbird. Tales from the History of World Culture" and shared excerpts from the section "Monsters All Around Us Sit", on superstitions, omens and folk demonology.
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Italian press quotes Rowan Atkinson on political correctness and the Middle Ages
Today the Italian press is chewing over Rowan Atkinson's remark that he is "tired of political correctness, it is like living in the Middle Ages". The Italians are quoting an interview given in honour of the actor's 66th birthday, in which he spoke, among
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Like any parent, I cannot help rejoicing in my little one's successes ❤️ And posts like this simply warm the heart
In the Press · Books · Observations · Humour
The books issue of Elle and stories of book theft from libraries in Moscow, Oxford and the US
I know everyone has already written about the "book" issue of Elle, guest-edited by Anna Popova, whom we know from the Dostoevsky bookshop. I leafed through it, and there is Katya Mukhina in her editor's letter writing about an assistant who stole from her the
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There are quite a few oddities in issue No. 9 of 1830 of Delvig's "Literary Gazette"
There are quite a few oddities in issue No. 9 of 1830 of Delvig's "Literary Gazette". Take, for example, the rhyme in Pushkin's epistle to Yazykov of 1824: "Since time immemorial a sweet bond Unites poets with one another: They are priests of
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Men's fashion of autumn 1828 and wide trousers adopted from sailors' dress
Men's styles for autumn 1828 are rather varied, and the solicitous editor of the fashion journal explains that before us are sporting dress, a water costume and a festive suit. The sporting one is for riding, the festive one for an evening outing. And the "water"
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Solzhenitsyn's 1970 Nobel Prize and two Time covers before he received it
On 8 October 1970 Alexandr Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". Alexandr Isayevich would receive the prize itself only in December 1974, after his expulsion from the Soviet Union. It is
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A Prophetic 20 August 2020 in The New Yorker's Calendar
A prophetic 20 August 2020 in The New Yorker's calendar. I remind you that the calendar was published as far back as 2019
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AST Nonfiction is running a poll on which cover best suits the hardback edition of Mockingbird
AST Nonfiction is running a poll on which cover best suits the hardback edition of Mockingbird. My choice, I think, is obvious. And what do you think? Thank you all for your congratulations; very soon it will be in bookshops across the country 🥰
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“The Beatles and the Rolling Stones and many others who took up the baton of madness from Presley were very popular, hundreds of thousands were invested to keep their reputation from fading”
“The Beatles and the Rolling Stones and many others who took up the baton of madness from Presley were very popular, hundreds of thousands were invested to keep their reputation from fading. And yet none of them lasted long.” An amusing note in Sovetskaya kultura by Tatyana Kvardakova. Tatyana Vladimirovna
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BBC shows a reconstruction of 15th-century Wells Cathedral with painted colour and niches for music
The BBC shows how Wells Cathedral looked in the 1400s. Most Gothic buildings, in Britain at least, were once brightly painted, like many of the structures and monuments of the ancient world, which we too are more accustomed to seeing in monochrome, their many colours lost over the years. Besides