Foreword by David Daiches with an additional essay, ‘Promised Lands’. In this captivating autobiography of his childhood and student years David Daiches recalls a unique period between the two world wars. There was something very special about the Scottish-Jewish interchange in those years. It has had its counterparts in other cultures yet few have been captured so vividly or with such insight peculiar to the very young. Daiches ...
When Emmett Till was murdered aged fourteen for allegedly whistling at a white woman, photographs of his destroyed face became a flashpoint in the civil rights movement. A decade earlier Emmett’s father, Louis, had also been killed – court-martialled and hanged. Though the circumstances could hardly have been more different, behind both deaths stood the same crime, of being black. In Writing to Save a Life, John Edgar Wideman, born the s ...
Принцесса Диана – главная Золушка XX века. В СМИ о ней восторженно говорили: «Воспитательница из детского сада стала принцессой Уэльской и некоронованной королевой людских сердец!». Она действительно завоевала любовь целой нации, но не смогла растопить сердце лишь одного британца – своего супруга принца Чарльза. Жизнь леди Ди – сказка с красивым началом и печальным концом, и именно эта грустная сказка сегодня переписывается по-новому! Поводом д ...
'I make you laugh at night but am Grim-All-Day' The son of a deranged Italian immigrant, Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837) was the most celebrated of English clowns. The first to use white-face make-up and wear outrageous coloured clothes, he completely transformed the role of the Clown in the pantomime with a look as iconic as Chaplin's tramp or Tommy Cooper's magician. One of the first celebrity comedians, his friends inc ...
