“How to tell the story of the rise and destruction of European Jews? Perhaps the most compelling way is through family history, as David Laskin does in his fascinating new book.” >review & photo (c) THE DAILY BEAST, 2013
Archive for America
“How History Broke Us”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags America, anti-Semitism, Belarus, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, family history, Holocaust, Jews, Judaism, pogroms on 7 December 2013 by delclem“what’s wrong with the modern world”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags America, Austria, Europe, Jonathan Franzen, Karl Kraus, Literature, modernity on 20 September 2013 by delclem
“While we are busy tweeting, texting and spending, the world is drifting towards disaster, believes Jonathan Franzen, whose despair at our insatiable technoconsumerism echoes the apocalyptic essays of the satirist Karl Kraus – ‘the Great Hater’.”>full text & photo (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2013
Yanko Tsvetkov’s stereotype maps
Posted in Uncategorized with tags America, Europe, maps, Stereotyping, Yanko Tsvetkov on 25 February 2012 by delclem
“It’s well known that Americans have a disarmingly blunt view of other nationalities, but seeing such brazen prejudices laid out, country by country, might shock even them. This is the world as depicted by graphic artist Yanko Tsvetkov. It is also a world in which gay men view Ireland as ‘being in denial’ and Greeks see the rest of Europe as a ‘Union of Stingy Workaholics’. Plus, read Tim Dowling’s interview with Yanko Tsvetkov: ‘Is it what they think of us?'” (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2012
Hedy Lamarr: inventor & movie star
Posted in Uncategorized with tags America, Austria, film history, film star, Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood, inventions, Vienna on 30 November 2011 by delclem
The Austrian-born American diva Hedy Lamarr “was feted for her beauty — but she also had a talent for inventions, including elements of today’s GPS.”
Article by Peter Conradi (c) THE SUNDAY TIMES, 2011
Meta-Maus
Posted in Uncategorized with tags America, Art Spiegelman, comic book, graphic novel, Holocaust, interview on 10 October 2011 by delclem
“When cartoonist Art Spiegelman published his epic Holocaust graphic novel, Maus, 25 years ago, a lot changed. He received a special Pulitzer Prize and became a contributor and cover artist for the New Yorker.
Maus blends the stories of Spiegelman’s trying relationship with his father and a horrifying tale of Auschwitz, as seen through his father’s eyes. Spiegelman drew the Jews as mice and the Germans as cats. But Maus has continued to haunt him.
MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus is the story behind Spiegelman’s signature work, complete with interviews, answers to many persistent questions and examples of his early drawings.”
>> SOUND FILE & ARTICLE (c) npr, 2011
Homeboy Jesus
Posted in Uncategorized with tags America, art, David LaChapelle, Jesus, photography, Switzerland on 20 September 2011 by delclemThe series Jesus is my Homeboy by the American photographer David LaChapelle on display in the Protestant French Church in St. Moritz, Switzerland, in 2008.
“The Anatomy of Influence”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags America, Anatomy of Influence, Harold Bloom, Literature, talk on 8 September 2011 by delclem“Literature for me is not merely the best part of life; it is itself the form of life, which has no other form.” (H. Bloom)
Another printed interview > Harper’s Magazine, 2011
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