Category: 5. Entertainment

Owning Up, by George Melly (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 30s)

I could never watch (the verb is chosen advisedly) George Melly singing without feeling embarrassed, and the same goes for reading his book. He is so anxious to tell you which birds he had…

Three years ago, when I was serving at the US National Security Council, we were faced with a nuclear crisis. As Bob Woodward described it in his book War, the Intelligence Community assessed that if Russian forces were facing a collapse in…

Shortly before he died in 1946, the photographer Alfred Stieglitz remembered taking a shot of one of one of New York ‘s most famous structures, in 1903. “I suddenly saw the Flatiron Building as I had never seen it before,” he said. “It…

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Loop Barcelona, the annual gathering dedicated to artists’ cinema, happens again this November with a non-traditional Art Fair (November 18–20), a Symposium (November 19–20), a Commoning Network (November 20), a new format of expert’s…