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The Proms, the series of concerts that run in London from the middle of July to early September, calls itself “the world’s greatest festival of classical music.” Whether it is or not, the festival run by the BBC has the economic power to...
The start of August has been like a complex math problem for me. It's one of those stretches where a hole opens up in your chest and it feels like it has no bottom. So you spend the whole time trying to fill it with meaning and purpose....
A year before Germaine Greer became one of the most famous feminists on earth, she was writing essays with titles like “I Am a Whore” for a magazine so explicit that Britain banned it before a single copy ever reached a newsstand. That...
Art mags of the Belle Epoque
Art mags of the Belle Epoque
Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1163/authenticity-problem
A look at trends in the site analytics after about a year since I started blogging. I started this blog in July 2025, but only really got started with posting on it in August, so we can say it's been approximately a year since I started....
For reasons, we use a sales tool called Apollo at work. To use it, your employees have to sign into a few of the scammiest websites anywhere, with fake privacy policies and Google App configs that scream “send my email to North Korea”....
So, finally watched HEAT. I tend to have issues with Michael Mann films but, despite reservations about this one, I did not experience my usual issue of finding that his bold stylistic choices are totally wrong for the film he’s making....
It’s niche, but I am going to use the front of this review to say how much I dislike Canary Wharf. Having been two weeks in a row, getting lost on both occasions, I’ve come to the conclusion that it is London’s only neighbourhood that...
When I set out to print this Milton Acorn passage that I typeset yesterday, something felt off, and I realized that although it wasn’t a poem, it was kind of a poem, and deserved to be set such that the words found their rhythm, so I...
Hit a couple Asian markets last weekend and found this and its non-spicy counterpart. I’ve been trying to get my hands on everything in this new Otoki range. Not a super fan of the new labeling; I really liked the standard yellow style....
Jumping off my post from earlier or LLM's rewarding expertise the video below was in my later.org file and I had time to get to it today. Points I liked: asking a question on Stack Overflow often meant you spent some time researching the...
In the 1950s, Italy was a country where centuries of history blended naturally with everyday life. Ancient churches, medieval streets, Renaissance buildings, and traditional neighborhoods still stood largely untouched by the rapid...
The neighbours who turned a dream home into a nightmare. What if Gaudí had designed a hotel in New York? A rendering of a 9-pin “Near Letter Quality” dot matrix font. A song made from fifty country artists singing “cold beer”. The Bayeux...