Tag: Diary
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“Centenarian” by Calvin Tomkins
Calvin Tomkins was a writer born in 1925, the same year as The New Yorker. For many years, he was a staff writer, contributing nearly 400 articles to the magazine, including insightful profile features on artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe and Robert Rauschenberg. He also wrote several books, including a biography of Marcel Duchamp, which…
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“Getting Lost” by Annie Ernaux
In 1988 Annie Ernaux was 48 years old, living on the outskirts of Paris, and consumed by a love affair with a 36-year-old Russian diplomat based in Paris. She chronicled the next year and a half in her diary, the belated translation of which has just been published. Annie Ernaux is now eighty-four and the…
