Tissue-thin vulnerability
Among other things, Sea Room is a study of human strategies for survival over millennia, of the fragility and tenacity...
Palladian persuasive powers
Let me remember this the next time I wonder what chance there is of persuading anyone to fund ambitious cultural...
Made up and yet true
A piercing rationale for the arts, if a rationale is needed. They are made up, but ...
On cultural relations
John Steinbeck and Robert Capa wrestle with their status in seeking some Soviet organization which would be willing to adopt...
An ocean bed of learning
These two intellectuals find common ground in more than the fact of loving the same woman. Despite this rivalry, they...
Alert to danger
This made me laugh out loud when reading Simon Winder's Danubia late one night. Parents ever-so-delicately trying to inveigle their...
A new breed of cultural object
I loved the unashamed enthusiasm of this statement, Rebanks having dedicated his life to preserving both this rare, tough breed...
Of art and Ithaca
This poetic summary resonates deeply - the search for green eternity as opposed to 'mere astonishments'. I've always been baffled...
A great paradox
Heaney tackles the paradox of poetry and other arts, the fact that at one level 'no lyric ever stopped a...
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