I have never really understood the passion for hunting. Whenever I see an animal or a bird in the wild, it does not cross my mind to kill it. I have even been charged by an elephant without wishing that I could shoot it: I wished it only to go away. I acknowledge, of course, that the passion for hunting exists, and not only among people whom I would consider bad. A literary hero of mine, Turgenev, who was a very good and humane man, loved hunting and could hardly see a duck without wanting to shoot it. I have never seen a duck that I wanted to shoot, though I regret to say that being ...
“You look like Van Gogh. Why don’t you cut off an ear?” With such cruelty I stopped the verbal diarrhea of a painter who was complaining, incapable of swimming with sharks in formalin. I admit ...
Like all proper banana republics, the Olive Republic of Greece has jailed some elected members of Parliament and charged them with criminality, as obscure and vague an accusation as hooliganism used ...
Investigators who"d raided a dilapidated Roma camp in central Greece last week in search of illegal drugs and firearms didn"t expect to find a pale-skinned four-year-old ...
If caught reading the wrong book in the Soviet Union you weren’t interrogated, you were imprisoned. On many occasions people were simply murdered. Of course, there was ...
Mixed martial arts is one of the world’s fastest-growing sports, and many say it is already more popular than boxing. Yet MMA's sociological and historical significance ...
This is the time of year when we celebrate the national religion of consumerism. Future archeologists might presume we were propitiating some kind of subterranean god by ...
What will the much-ballyhooed Occupy Wall Street movement do when it’s officially declared to be on life support? If you believe the Los Angeles Times, the OWS movement is going ...
On July 18, 2011, Sean Hoare was found mysteriously deceased by London police. This is notable for two reasons. The first reason is that Hoare was a primary whistle-blower in the ...
10 Picks for the Week Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman Sam Wasson’s new book, about the making of ...
10 Picks for the Week Sonar International Music Conference and Multimedia Art, Barcelona, Spain, June 17 - 19 It is that time of year again… This is three nights and days ...
Pierre Bergé Design Sale, Brussels, Belgium, June 9 Tom Dixon, Marcel Breuer, Alberto Giacometti, The Lalannes, Line Vautrin, Serge Mouille, Pierre Jeanneret, Joe Colombo, and ...
10 Picks for the Week Centre Pompidou-Metz Paris’ gorgeous center of modern art, The Pompidou, has opened its first extension—in Metz, a small city 170 miles east of ...
10 Picks for the Week RHS Chelsea Flower Show, London, May 25 - May 29 Gardeners and flower lovers of this world unite every spring at the world's most famous flower show on ...
10 Picks for the Week A Patch on My Evil Eye, May 6 - May 26, The Arab-British Centre, London A showcase of paintings, photographs, prints, and sculpture by young artists from ...
Festival de Cannes, May 13 - May 23 Founded in 1946, this festival is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious. This year the President of the Jury is American film ...
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