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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 1h

As it happens, we saw 'Reds' again at a screening here in New York a few weeks ago. Diane Keaton's performance is unforgettable. The film is available on Apple TV, Google Play, and YouTube. (I've removed the paywall of this article.)

Diane Keaton in ‘Reds’: A Remarkable Performance but Also a Returning Point

www.nytimes.com

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 4h

'A beautiful, radical, dangerous act,' says Peter Debruge, 'that speaks to a part of each and every one of us that we’ve been taught to distrust.' Here's his full review:
variety.com/2025/film/re...

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 4h

Here are the details:
www.khm.at/en/exhibitio...

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 4h

'If women are able to bring real people into the world so well, who will be surprised that those who wish to are also able to create painted ones?'

-- Giorgio Vasari

An exhibit in Vienna celebrates the work of Michaelina Wautier (1604-1689), whose work was often attributed to her male artists.

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 12h

Here's the trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYcg...

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 12h

Looking forward to this film about the Shakespeare family, which is due next month. I'll post the trailer in Comments.

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Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social · 1d

I just finished translating this for Penguin, it's a lovely book. Out sometime next year...

Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 1d

Laure Murat's 'Proust, roman familial', which won the Medici non-fiction prize in 2023, is now available in a German translation by Jürgen Ritter. Murat explains how reading Proust helped her come to grips with her own aristocratic roots -- and to her family's rejection of her homosexuality.

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@dlp. @umadlp.bsky.social · 13h

Fonds Marcel Proust. À LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU. Manuscrits autographes.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 7d

What is the 'little patch of yellow wall' that Proust so admired in this painting by Vermeer? (Proust once called his canvas 'the most beautiful picture in the world.)

Experts disagree, but American painter Jonathan Janson sums up the question nicely:

www.essentialvermeer.com/proust/prous...

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 1d

Adrian Boult was one of the world's leading conductors for decades. Many music lovers will want to have this collection of his complete mono recordings from 1920 to 1957. There's a full tracklist here:

www.warnerclassics.com/release/comp...

Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 1d

Dozens of federal judges say the US face a 'judicial crisis'.

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps so. But until the nuclear age and the climate crisis human beings didn't have the tools for their own destruction as a species. It takes a lot longer with bows and arrows.

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 1d

In a NY Times interview, Ian McEwan discusses his new novel, 'What We Can Know,' which looks back on our time from 2120. He thinks people then will call our era The Derangement: 'We know what to do, but we can't somehow summon the political agreement on doing it or change our selfish behavior.'

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

DOJ refuses James Comey's discovery requests, turning over a single document in a case where thousands obviously exist. Comey seeks an order, which Bondi will also defy. Then the court will draw the inference from DOJ's noncompliance that the documents show what Comey claims. Dismissal will follow.

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 1d

On Reddit's Proust page, several people say they've read the book in French and warmly recommend it.

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 1d

A Spanish translation was published in March by Anagrama:
www.anagrama-ed.es/libro/panora...

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Charlotte. I look forward to reading it.

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a review of Jürgen Ritte's translation by Dina Netz for German public radio:
www1.wdr.de/mediathek/au...

Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 1d

Laure Murat's 'Proust, roman familial', which won the Medici non-fiction prize in 2023, is now available in a German translation by Jürgen Ritter. Murat explains how reading Proust helped her come to grips with her own aristocratic roots -- and to her family's rejection of her homosexuality.

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 12d

'Beginnings and endings I know full well,
and life after the end, and something else
that I do not need to remember now.'

Anna Akhmatova, from 'Northern Elegies, No. 5' (1945)
Translation by Frank Beck

I'll post a translation of the entire poem in Comments.

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 2d

Another reason I'm happy that I subscribe to the London Review: podcasts like this, available to all subscribers.

Podcast: Colm Tóibín, Deborah Friedell and Thomas Jones · Novel Approaches: ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ by Henry James

www.lrb.co.uk

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 3d

🎉 We are delighted to announce the shortlists for the 2025 National Translation Awards (NTA) in Poetry and Prose!

2025 marks the 27th year for the NTA, and the 11th year to award separate prizes in poetry and prose.

View the lists here: literarytranslators.org/the-2025-nat...

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