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Back when most people stayed home, travel writing was a highly imaginative genre. Ask Pausanias, Ibn Battuta or Marco Polo about the strange creatures and bizarre customs that they, and evidently nobody else, encountered in their wanderings. But modern practitioners - Bruce Chatwin, Paul Theroux, Pico Iyer - have helped elevate travel writing, if not to a science, then at least to an art that values truth. No one has mastered that task more deftly than Jan Morris, 79, the England-born, thoroughly Welsh writer and historian. In more than 40 books and countless essays over the past half-century...
...disadvantage because we’ve got a much more international team, and everyone plays with borrowed or leased horses. Except for me.” What are his horses’ names? Baja, Maggie, Davis, Petra, and Negro. And who are his players? All Harvard grads. Marco Elser from Rome, Hanni Habbas ’86 from London, James McBride from South Africa, and Rhett J. Drugge ’81, who co-founded the Ivy Cup with Johnson back in 2002.The Harvard squad, it seems, is more pure-blooded than the rest: most of the Yale and Princeton...
Directed by Marco Bellochio Peppercorn-Wormser/ The Criterion Collection 4 Stars Marco Bellocchio’s “Fists In the Pocket” follows a murderous epileptic as he begins killing his stuffy, embarrassing family. Oh, and he’s in love with his sister, his first victim is his blind mother, and his second victim is his mentally disabled epileptic brother. It’s an audacious directorial debut, particularly for Italy in 1965, still trying to stitch itself together after the war and, cinematically, completely in the thrall of neo-realism, which was just beginning...
Oscar Niemeyer: Houses (Rizzoli) Alan Hess celebrates the work of the Brazilian architect with Alan Weintraub's photographs of houses designed by Oscar Niemeyer in his home city of Braslia. Some featured are those of Marco Antonio Amaral Rezende, Flavio Marcilio and Sebastio Camargo...
...Marco Polo returns to Venice after a long sojourn in China, laden with silk and jewels and tales of the fabulous wealth of the Orient. His exploits rekindle a long-dormant interest in trade between Europe and the East...