Goya's Black Paintings
Beyond the book article for
The NamesIn a key scene in Florence Knapp's novel
The Names, two characters are in an art gallery viewing an exhibition. The author writes:
'They stop in front of a hideous image, a painting on loan from a gallery in Madrid. It shows a naked man, frenzied and wild-eyed, consuming a smaller ...
Beyond the book article for
A Private ManThe magnificent rose windows of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris are considered masterpieces of engineering for their artistic beauty, mathematical precision, and structural stability. Amazingly, the
windows remained intact after the debilitating Paris fire of 2019.
The windows were created ...
Beyond the book article for
Baby in a Box
Four stories from Sarah Braunstein's
Baby in a Box were first published in
The New Yorker, a magazine with a 101-year history of showcasing excellent short fiction from the likes of John Cheever, Mavis Gallant, Jhumpa Lahiri, Alice Munro, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, and William Trevor.
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