Archive for August, 2007

Kahlo letters unsealed

Frida Kahlo’s letters to one of her best friends, Dr. Leo Eloesser, have been sealed since her death (on Diego Rivera’s orders), but are now being published.

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Michael Gorra on Hamburg’s Bücherstube Stolterfoht

While I focus on things other than blogging this month, I’m running a series on independent bookstores. Below Michael Gorra, a critic and Smith College English Lit professor, recalls visits to his favorite Hamburg bookshop, the Bücherstube Stolterfoht, where he yearned for every volume although (or maybe because) all but the children’s titles were beyond the reach of his German. . . .

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Myra Hindley, c’est moi?

Richard Eder admires the way Rupert Thomson’s Death of a Murderer mines both the fascination with and horror of Britain’s moors murders.

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