2023-12-10 11:37:21 Keith Jarrett by Ludovic Florin Éditions du Layeur, 390 p., €45 This beautiful book reflects the artistic temperament of Keith Jarrett, an American pianist born in 1945, celebrated in the sphere of jazz, but also esteemed in that of classical music. The volume possesses the originality and formal liberality of this brilliant improviser, … Read more
2023-08-09 10:47:00 A review of the poems in Ameya may begin with the story of a soulful jealousy between Mian Tansen and Baiju Bhavra. Sangeet Samrat discovered the Darbari Kanada raga which gave rise to 1000’s of super hit songs like Duniyake Rakh Wale, Azhake Nin Mizhineer Maniil Muth Pojkarute, Malare Maunama that we hear … Read more
2023-06-23 07:18:53 # O.S. Priyadarshanan 23 June 2023, 12:48 PM IST OS on Farzana’s novel ‘Elma’ published by Mathrubhumi Books. Let’s read Priyadarshan’s taste note… Farzana, book cover | Photo: Mathrubhumi ‘ALma’ is a big tree. Mahataru has grown through the rhythms and strokes of the seasons with extraordinary skill. The Vada-tree, which rejoiced in … Read more
Assemblage de Natasha Brown Translated from English by Jakuta Alikavazovic Grasset, 160 p., 17 € For an average Briton, in other words a white man, her identity seems simple to describe: she is a black woman, attractive, from the training of excellence of “Oxbridge”, salaried employee with brilliant success; the portrait is completed by a … Read more
Five years after his collaboration with Stanley Kubricks on “2001 – A Space Odyssey” made him world famous, Arthur C. Clarke published “Rendezvous with Rama” – the original title was only used for the third German edition after a hardcover in Marion von Schröder Verlag and the first paperback publication in the Heyne Allgemeine series … Read more
“Let’s spend the day positively today!” Even if you think so, in the end, she will be depressed or irritated by some kind of beat. Unexpectedly, it is not uncommon for people to vent their feelings on someone and fall into self-loathing. It is natural to have feelings and to express them. For example, Tora-san, … Read more
Aron directed by Elisabeth Dutartre-Michaut Editions de L’Herne, 272 p., €33 There is something disturbing about going back to the writings of Raymond Aron (1905-1983), when in Eastern Europe war has just made a sensational entrance again. The work of the philosopher and sociologist, former professor at the College de France and figure of liberal … Read more
The Grand Tour, self-portrait of Europe by its writers Collective, under the direction of Olivier Guez, with Daniel Kehlmann, Sofi Oksanen, Colm Toibin, Jens Christian Grondahl, Lidia Jorge… Grasset, 464 p., 22 € What can culture do in times of war? This question, at a time when Europe has seen the armed conflict return to … Read more