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In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 …
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Kultura není jen film, divadlo a výtvarné umění, ale i sousedské slavnosti, komunitní aktivity a …
In this exhilarating novel, two friends--often in love, but never lovers--come together as creative partners in the world of video …
Yoga raw food business Goa owners , world of good old Thatcher-era England nostalgics, writers spending their time closed at home, writing whatever pays for their Amazon Prime deliveries in flooded areas. All those get an ironic and fun punch in the face in these three stories.
A collection of Reynaldo’s most thought-provoking essays, First Floor Volume 1 provides a nuanced, wide-ranging …
3,5 stars. Converting a substack newsletter into a book is a hard task, this one has worked out, partly. Put together, these short essays form as a timestamp of the post-covid era, from a viewpoint of someone who is deeply involved in the music journalism and (broken) music business. Streaming, poptimism, DJing and partying after covid are some of the topics covered. The recurrinng topics and (sometimes) too plain language writing, reliance on ephemeral topics and sources (Twitter) will make it probably date quite fast, but that is yet to be seen, i’ll get back to it in a few years.
Terms From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and …
What does it mean to be working-class in a middle-class world? Cynthia Cruz shows us …
Surprisingly good. Instead of academic verbose, the author speaks of her own lived experience and interwines it with the lives of artists - musicians, writers, film makers. The scope is quite wide: from Ian Curtis and Paul Weller to film maker Barbara Loden.
Well written travelogue and history of a coastal sound. Without being too dense and theory-laden, it leads you through the history by referencing archival material, stories of the inventors, sound art and music.
Great reading for those who want to broadem their perspectives on what museums can look and (more importantly) function in the present and future. I was amazed to find out how museums thrive in other parts of the world, other than the historically most visible like Europe and US. China, Latin America…
