“There is no dead matter,” the narrator’s father proselytizes in Bruno Schulz’s 1937 book Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, “lifelessness is only a…
Entering Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, one is immediately faced with a decision. It’s a decision of considerable importance. Standing in the rotunda, one may either go forward,…
In England, every director of eligible age faces being conscripted into making a movie about the British experience of a world war of their choosing.…
In 1892, Ruth Belville took up the family business. It was a trade inherited from her mother, first founded by her father. He had innovated…