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Louise Brooks #BOTD
"There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!"
Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française 1953.
Louise Brooks as Lulu in Pandora's Box (1929), directed by G. W. Pabst.
"There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!"
Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française 1953.
Louise Brooks as Lulu in Pandora's Box (1929), directed by G. W. Pabst.
November 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Louise Brooks #BOTD
"There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!"
Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française 1953.
Louise Brooks as Lulu in Pandora's Box (1929), directed by G. W. Pabst.
"There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!"
Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française 1953.
Louise Brooks as Lulu in Pandora's Box (1929), directed by G. W. Pabst.
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‘He wonders why useful labour is so undervalued and useless labour so heavily remunerated. Is capitalism doing something supposedly foreclosed by the profit motive?’
@leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations
Graeber seems to have had most fun as an outsider, a movement anthropologist wending his way among anticapitalist...
www.lrb.co.uk
August 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
‘He wonders why useful labour is so undervalued and useless labour so heavily remunerated. Is capitalism doing something supposedly foreclosed by the profit motive?’
@leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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The one change that worked: I grew my own vegetables – and suddenly stopped wasting food
The one change that worked: I grew my own vegetables – and suddenly stopped wasting food
When I started caring for some tomato plants, it was as if a switch had been flicked in my mind. I knew I had to stop throwing food away. I immediately became much more creative with the meals I was making …
www.theguardian.com
August 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The one change that worked: I grew my own vegetables – and suddenly stopped wasting food
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'It is passion recollected in anything but tranquillity that feeds the flame of both her poetry and her prose.'
Barbara Heldt on Marina Tsvetaeva’s prose about love in revolutionary times
Barbara Heldt on Marina Tsvetaeva’s prose about love in revolutionary times
She always kisses first
www.the-tls.com
July 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
'It is passion recollected in anything but tranquillity that feeds the flame of both her poetry and her prose.'
Barbara Heldt on Marina Tsvetaeva’s prose about love in revolutionary times
Barbara Heldt on Marina Tsvetaeva’s prose about love in revolutionary times
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“People are the beauty and the light and the point and the purpose.” New fiction by Zadie Smith.
“The Silence,” by Zadie Smith
She could sit on a bench in Europe completely unmolested, without a single human being saying a word to her, until the sun fell out of the sky.
www.newyorker.com
July 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
“People are the beauty and the light and the point and the purpose.” New fiction by Zadie Smith.
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you take one last, long look at your favourite view
June 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
you take one last, long look at your favourite view
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Le pianiste Igor Levit interprète seul les « Vexations » de Satie, 840 répétitions du même motif pour une performance de plus de seize heures
Le pianiste Igor Levit interprète seul les « Vexations » de Satie, 840 répétitions du même motif pour une performance de plus de seize heures
Le centre Southbank présente ce concert, prévu jeudi, comme « un exploit d’endurance ». L’Allemand avait déjà fait sensation en jouant le morceau dans son studio à Berlin pendant vingt heures d’affilée lors du confinement.
www.lemonde.fr
April 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Le pianiste Igor Levit interprète seul les « Vexations » de Satie, 840 répétitions du même motif pour une performance de plus de seize heures
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• Emily Dickinson •
April 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
• Emily Dickinson •
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I fear I’m doing friendship wrong: why do we lose the art of just hanging out? | Carolin Würfel
I fear I’m doing friendship wrong: why do we lose the art of just hanging out? | Carolin Würfel
Pre-planned lunch is fine but is rarely about true connection. Surely unstructured time with friends is better
www.theguardian.com
April 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I fear I’m doing friendship wrong: why do we lose the art of just hanging out? | Carolin Würfel
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A reminder of a pretty etymology to brighten the day. The ‘daisy’ takes its name from the Old English ‘dæges ēage’, ‘day’s eye’, because it opens its petals at dawn, and closes them again at dusk.
April 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
A reminder of a pretty etymology to brighten the day. The ‘daisy’ takes its name from the Old English ‘dæges ēage’, ‘day’s eye’, because it opens its petals at dawn, and closes them again at dusk.
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Marxist scholar Michael Löwy, responding to Samuel Farber’s “In Defense of Progress” from the new issue of Jacobin, defends philosopher Walter Benjamin and argues that “progress,” as defined under capitalism, has come to threaten humanity’s very survival.
Capitalist Progress Threatens Human Survival
Marxist scholar Michael Löwy, responding to Samuel Farber’s “In Defense of Progress” from the new issue of Jacobin, defends philosopher Walter Benjamin and argues that “progress,” as defined under cap...
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April 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Marxist scholar Michael Löwy, responding to Samuel Farber’s “In Defense of Progress” from the new issue of Jacobin, defends philosopher Walter Benjamin and argues that “progress,” as defined under capitalism, has come to threaten humanity’s very survival.
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Reading for your long weekend – Eimear McBride on Samuel Beckett’s spare and unrelenting prose style in The Unnamable.
newstatesman.com/culture/books/2025/04/samuel-becketts-art-of-reduction
newstatesman.com/culture/books/2025/04/samuel-becketts-art-of-reduction
Samuel Beckett’s art of reduction
In The Unnamable, the writer’s prose was stripped to the bone – and the bone itself boiled white.
www.newstatesman.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Reading for your long weekend – Eimear McBride on Samuel Beckett’s spare and unrelenting prose style in The Unnamable.
newstatesman.com/culture/books/2025/04/samuel-becketts-art-of-reduction
newstatesman.com/culture/books/2025/04/samuel-becketts-art-of-reduction
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I’m obsessed with coastal wildflowers: they look so delicate but thrive in tough conditions
I’m obsessed with coastal wildflowers: they look so delicate but thrive in tough conditions
From the rock sea-spurrey, which appears to grow out of solid rock, to the slender centaury that lives on a landslip, these plants exist where they do for good reason
www.theguardian.com
April 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I’m obsessed with coastal wildflowers: they look so delicate but thrive in tough conditions
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“All modes of government are failures… High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”
Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
April 14, 2025 at 7:49 AM
“All modes of government are failures… High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”
Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
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Spring has officially sprung. But #equinox aside, how do we tell the season is here? @hoooaw.bsky.social looks at Robert Marsham’s Indications of Spring (1789), a lifelong calendrical project by Britain’s first phenologist — publicdomainreview.org/essay/from-s...
From Snowdrop to Nightjar: Robert Marsham’s “Indications of Spring” (1789)
What can we learn from observing the progression of spring — a hawthorn’s first flowering, the return of birdsong on a particular day? Hugh Aldersey-Williams explores the lifelong calendrical project ...
publicdomainreview.org
March 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Spring has officially sprung. But #equinox aside, how do we tell the season is here? @hoooaw.bsky.social looks at Robert Marsham’s Indications of Spring (1789), a lifelong calendrical project by Britain’s first phenologist — publicdomainreview.org/essay/from-s...
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The creative works on which Hector Berlioz drew when writing his macabre and revolutionary Symphonie Fantastique were fantastic indeed. bit.ly/43R6Pvy
The Literary Inspirations for Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique - JSTOR Daily
The creative works on which Hector Berlioz drew when writing his macabre and revolutionary symphony were fantastic indeed.
bit.ly
April 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The creative works on which Hector Berlioz drew when writing his macabre and revolutionary Symphonie Fantastique were fantastic indeed. bit.ly/43R6Pvy
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‘The people of Glasgow frowned on all the spitting’: Peter Capaldi on his punk rock past
‘The people of Glasgow frowned on all the spitting’: Peter Capaldi on his punk rock past
As he releases his ‘melancholic’ second album, the actor looks back on his youth in a struggling art-punk band – and explains how he took inspiration from putting the bins out
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 6:18 AM
‘The people of Glasgow frowned on all the spitting’: Peter Capaldi on his punk rock past
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Près d’un tiers des auteurs estiment que leur relation avec leur éditeur s’est dégradée
Près d’un tiers des auteurs estiment que leur relation avec leur éditeur s’est dégradée
Une étude souligne l’importance des « difficultés comportementales » dans le secteur de l’édition et la quasi-impossibilité, pour les auteurs, de vivre de leurs écrits.
www.lemonde.fr
April 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Près d’un tiers des auteurs estiment que leur relation avec leur éditeur s’est dégradée
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January 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Three days to go until Blue Road - The Edna O'Brien Story starts in Irish cinemas.
Tickets are now on sale in the QFT Belfast and selling swiftly in the Palás, Lighthouse and @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social
We'll have our full list of cinemas tomorrow with @breakoutpictures.bsky.social
Tickets are now on sale in the QFT Belfast and selling swiftly in the Palás, Lighthouse and @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social
We'll have our full list of cinemas tomorrow with @breakoutpictures.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Three days to go until Blue Road - The Edna O'Brien Story starts in Irish cinemas.
Tickets are now on sale in the QFT Belfast and selling swiftly in the Palás, Lighthouse and @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social
We'll have our full list of cinemas tomorrow with @breakoutpictures.bsky.social
Tickets are now on sale in the QFT Belfast and selling swiftly in the Palás, Lighthouse and @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social
We'll have our full list of cinemas tomorrow with @breakoutpictures.bsky.social
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In 1941, at the age of 36, Greta Garbo, one of the biggest box-office draws in the world, stopped acting and, though she lived for half a century more, never made another film.
What Was So Special About Greta Garbo?
An enigma onscreen and off, the actress only magnified her celebrity by suddenly renouncing it.
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January 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
In 1941, at the age of 36, Greta Garbo, one of the biggest box-office draws in the world, stopped acting and, though she lived for half a century more, never made another film.
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Our Book of the Week is *Silent Catastrophes*, by W.G. Sebald. What a business! order your copy here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/silent...
January 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Our Book of the Week is *Silent Catastrophes*, by W.G. Sebald. What a business! order your copy here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/silent...
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In publishing the stakes are usually much lower, the battles more fierce and the comedy more acute.
Irina Dumitrescu: Satirical takes on the novelist
Irina Dumitrescu: Satirical takes on the novelist
Satirical takes on the novelist
The publishing industry has always been ripe for satire. In any area of life, the insistence that money must be earned from people’s personal,
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January 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM
In publishing the stakes are usually much lower, the battles more fierce and the comedy more acute.
Irina Dumitrescu: Satirical takes on the novelist
Irina Dumitrescu: Satirical takes on the novelist