The Book & the Movie: White Nights | Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1848 / Luchino Visconti, 1957
“And was it his destined part Only one moment in his life To be close to your heart? Or was...
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Covenant | A poem by Tennessee Williams, 1957
Edvard Munch, Bountiful apple tree, 1920-28 If you are happy, i will give you an apple, if you are anxious,...
Everything that is hidden | James Joyce to Nora Barnacle, 1909
Nora Barnacle, James Joyce, 1931 . “I always think of you. When I go to bed at night is...
Days [ ) Never | Ernest Hemingway, 1964
Pleiades “Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.” Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, 1964 Also:...
Love letters to Fanny Brawne | John Keats, 1820
March (?) 1820 Sweetest Fanny You fear, sometimes, I do not love you so much as you wish? My dear Girl...
The Book and the Movie: Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier, 1938 / Alfred Hitchcock, 1940
Rebecca (1938) is a novel by English author Daphne du Maurier. Daphne du Maurier always said her novel Rebecca was a...
The Book & the Movie: The Wanderer / Le Grand Meaulnes / Ο μεγάλος Μωλν | Alain-Fournier, 1913 / Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, 1967
^ Alain-Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes, 1913 Cover illustration: Edward Gorey . “I am looking for something still more mysterious: for the path...
Love answers / Letter to his teenage son | John Steinbeck, 1958
In November of 1958, John Steinbeck received a letter from his eldest son, Thom, who was attending boarding school. In...
Flick Review < The Devil's Circus | Benjamin Christensen, 1926
Benjamin Christensen, 1926 / Silent, USAStars: Norma Shearer, Charles Emmett Mack, Carmel MyersA pickpocket and a trapeze artist fall in...
I’ve never lived before | Leo Tolstoy, 1869
“Well, dear heart, I wanted to tell you yesterday, and I’ve come to tell you today. I’ve never experienced anything...