Sculpture Victorious
The exhibition Sculpture Victorious: Art in the Age of Invention, 1837–1901, currently showing at the Yale Center for British…
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Quiet Resonance: Translating Patrick Modiano
Notes on Patrick Modiano and Suspended Sentences from the translator, Mark Polizzotti – 2014 At first blush, the…
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Patrick Modiano: Nobel Prize winner
On 9th October 2014 Patrick Modiano became the 107th winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Peter Englund, the…
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