How the race to translate Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky continues to spark feuds, end friendships, and create small fortunes.

The Translation Wars

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others, now available on DVD, is the best feature film debut by a director since Orson Welles's Citizen Kane.

I Spy

A tip for the fans of Oscar Peterson.

This isn’t Jazz at the Philharmonic, but the feeling is much the same. A loose jam session of familiar standards (plus two ringers, of which more later) played by some of the best. The veterans, having done this many times before, look at each other and then proceed to give the people what they came to see. You hear challenges, actions and reactions, beauty and energy, all in this reissue of the 2-LP set.

Live at the Northsea Jazz Festival, 1980

I found a collection of over 200 35mm Kodachrome slides of travel and marketing posters from the 1950's and 1960's.. There are some real gems in here!

I've done my best to identify them however quite a number are in languages I can't translate. If you see any you recognize add a note to improve the record!

Unfortunately they don't have high-resolution images.

Classic Posters

Following on the [citation needed] tip:

Undisclosed sources for contents are rarely a good sign in a British meat product. This book suggests that much the same rule pertains to collections of criticism.

(This book is not recommended, but I found the quote amusing.)

Review of 'The Rough Guide to Film'

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To Eyestones, Laura incarnates the vacuity of contemporary America: “Her trains of thought had no cabooses.”

Laura Warholic: Briefly Noted: The New Yorker

From the New Yorker, July 14, 1951:

The most encouraging word we have so far had about television came from a grade-school principal we encountered the other afternoon.

"They say it's going to bring back vaudeville," he said, "but I think it's going to bring back the book."

...

It's only a question of time, our principal felt, before the new literacy of the television audience reaches the point where whole books can be held up to the screen and all their pages slowly turned.

Anticipating the Kindle, I suppose. (Once it goes color, the Kindle may do well selling comic books.)

Great moments in predicting the future, television edition

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You never forget your first concert or your first urinal. And here at the Nassau Coliseum on Friday night, where some men’s rooms had been turned into emergency women’s rooms, at least a few girls saw both.

A Girls’ Night Out to Remember