dirac Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 An appreciation of Robert Gottlieb by Daniel Mendelsohn in the July 20 issues of The New York Review of Books. Quote Although Bob had a first-class formal education—Columbia under Lionel Trilling, Cambridge—he was ultimately self-taught in the way that many people who are voracious and indiscriminate readers in their formative years are self-taught: because he sampled everything for himself firsthand, his relationship to books and, later, to all culture was wholly unfiltered by received opinion or “theory” or schools of thought. As a result, he was utterly without intellectual or cultural prejudice—not at all a bad model for an aspiring critic. He went on teaching that lesson to the very end. Days before he died, when he was terribly weakened and confined to a hospital bed, he was lecturing me and an understandably wide-eyed nurse about the “right” translation of The Brothers Karamazov (Constance Garnett) and the importance of Ethel Merman’s career. Link to comment
dirac Posted July 3, 2023 Author Share Posted July 3, 2023 A Harper's Bazaar interview with Francesca Hayward. Quote Hayward will be dancing with Cesar Corrales, her fellow Principal at The Royal Ballet – who also happens to be her boyfriend. In 2019, the pair fell in love when they danced the lead roles in Romeo and Juliet; since then, their romance has captivated ballet fans. “It’s wonderful, but it’s also challenging,” says Hayward of working with her partner, with whom she lives in Soho, just a stone’s throw from The Royal Opera House. Link to comment
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