Tag: Afterlives
The Many Afterlives of Art Spiegelman’s “Maus”
When I was a junior in college, I studied abroad for a semester in Rome. I only managed to make one Italian friend, a charming boy with a winsome smile who, when he focused his attention on you, made you feel like you were at the center of the world. Needless to say, I had a crush on him. He did not have a crush back, but we spent a lot of time wandering
A.E. Stallings and the Afterlives of Antiquity
A.E. Stallings is the author of four collections of poetry: Archaic Smile (1999), Hapax (2006), Olives (2012), and Like (2018). Born in Decatur, Ga., in 1968, Stallings studied classics at the University of Georgia and at Oxford before decamping in 1999 to Athens, Greece, where she lives with her husband and two children. One of America’s
Rezension: „Afterlives“ von Abdulrazak Gurnah
„Afterlives“, der neue Roman des Nobelpreisträgers Abdulrazak Gurnah, spielt in der Kolonialzeit in Deutsch-Ostafrika.
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The Many Afterlives of Vincent Chin
Helen Zia moved to Detroit in 1976. She was a twenty-four-year-old medical-school dropout who had spent the previous few years as an organizer in Boston, working to desegregate construction sites in the South End. She ended up in the Midwest because friends had told her to go to “the heartland” if she wanted to truly understand social change, and upon arriving she found work at an auto plant. These were difficult yet coveted jobs that often got passed through families,
Warum sind die Opfer in “Afterlives” über Raubkunst eine Nebensache?
Einige Schlagzeilen der letzten Monate. März: Die französische Regierung stimmt der Rückgabe einer bedeutenden Landschaft von Gustav Klimt an die Erben der Wiener Jüdin Nora Stiasny zu, die sie 1942 verkaufen musste, bevor sie in den Tod geschickt wurde.
Juni: Die Königlichen Museen der Schönen Künste in Brüssel geben der Familie von Gustav und Emma Mayer, jüdischen Flüchtlingen aus Deutschland, deren Hab und Gut im von den Nazis besetzten Belgien geplündert wurde, ein Stillleben von Lovis Corinth zurück.
August: Das