books + arts
- The Escape Artist: John Banville on Georges Simenon
- Was he human? In his energies, creative and erotic, he was certainly extraordinary. He wrote some 400 novels, under a variety of pseudonyms, as well as countless short stories and film scripts, and toward the end of his life, having supposedly given up wr
- 2008-06-10 to arts, bestof, books, life, literature by bagoly
- Deciphering The Da Vinci Code
- More than a century before The Da Vinci Code, another instant bestseller not only managed to upset the entire Christian community; it actually managed to create entirely new inroads of debate about Jesus Christ – thus giving rise to the discussions entert
- 2008-03-26 to arts, books, religion by bagoly
- The Rebel Angels
- They came of age—and to music stardom—in the 60s and 70s: Carole King, the sensual Earth Mother; Joni Mitchell, the bohemian risktaker; and Carly Simon, the glamorous iconoclast. Today they are activists, role models, grandmothers. In an excerpt from her
- 2008-03-26 to arts, bestof, books, life, music, story by bagoly
- How JG Ballard came to write Crash
- Before JG Ballard wrote the novel Crash, he set out to show that the mind links car accidents with sex. But even he was surprised by the public’s anger
- 2008-02-01 to arts, bestof, books, story by bagoly
- The Furious Passions of Norman Mailer
- His life became an 84-year fantasmagoria of fulfilled impulses, and the strange and wonderful knowledge that resulted. Woody Allen once joked that when Norman Mailer died, he'd donate his ego for medical research.
- 2007-11-30 to 10 zen monkeys, arts, bestof, books, life by bagoly
- A classic by any other name
- Why is Joseph Heller's famous 'Catch' called '22'? Why is Bertie's manservant called Jeeves? And why does the postman always ring twice (in a book that has no postman)? In these fascinating extracts from his new book, Gary Dexter reveals the story b
- 2007-11-20 to arts, books, extract by bagoly
- The Big Question: Was Byron a 19th-century giant – or just an early exponent of celebrity hype?
- The man who has been vilified as an over-sexed Regency dandy was in fact, with the possible exception of Napoleon, "the most important European in the first half of the 19th century". He was, Rawes said, "bigger than Shakespeare".
- 2007-09-14 to arts, books, history by bagoly
- The Getty: For Better and Worse
- The catastrophes that have lately befallen the J. Paul Getty Trust—established by the eponymous oil tycoon in 1953 for "the diffusion of artistic and general knowledge"—are of such magnitude that only classical mythology seems to offer archetypes equal
- 2006-11-03 to arts, books, history by bagoly
- How café culture influenced writers and artists
- Ibsen, Satre and Dali worked best with a glass in front of them. A new book explores the contribution made by café culture to their greatest creations.
- 2006-10-09 to arts, books, drink by bagoly
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