This is an articulate meditation mostly on war photography that didn't solve any of my problems. Somewhere at the bottom of my mind I was kind of hoping it would. Silly me. Anyway, while it's not particularly enlightening or revelatory (or helpful), the essay does help the reader focus his/her own i...
A biography in novel form about Artemisia Gentileschi, the Renaissance painter who survived being put on trial following her rape to work long and productively for many years in Naples and elsewhere. Banti's first draft of this novel was destroyed during the fighting in WWII, so that loss becomes pa...
Moving novel describing the dangerous political intrigue that led to pointless executions during the Stalinist era. Beautifully written and with a fascinating forward by Susan Sontag.
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