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Poem translated: “The Devil’s Voice” by Konstantin Balmont Man is a rebellious creature. This is the meaning of the metaphor… READ MORE
Remembering the great pianist Maria Yudina There are comparatively few biographies of great pianists — with reason, I always thought. Pianists didn’t… READ MORE
Book Reviewed: The Birth of Biopolitics by Michel Foucault Commenting on his own manner of expressing thoughts, Michel Foucault likened… READ MORE
Book Reviewed: The Twilight of Europe by Grigory Landau (originally published in May 2024) A Nobel Prize-winning poet once said there was… READ MORE
Book reviewed: The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (originally published in April 2024) If you know next to nothing about Fernando… READ MORE
On a forgotten thinker and Putin’s useful idiots (originally published in March 2024) In the fall of 1922, a steamer… READ MORE
Book Reviewed: The Spanish Inquisition by Henry Kamen (originally published in Jan 2024) There is a movie I recall seeing years ago.… READ MORE
Poem translated: “A Riddle” by Pyotr Vyazemsky (originally published in Jan 2024) Alexander Pushkin is the Mozart of Russian poetry.… READ MORE
Book reviewed: Dresden Passions by Friedrich Gorenstein (originally published in Dec 2023) In September 1882, some three hundred visitors from various corners… READ MORE
On the Russian thinker and writer Vasily Rozanov (originally published in Nov 2023) “There are people born ‘well made’ for… READ MORE
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