In Richard Linklater’s 2011 film Bernie, there’s a short scene where a man describes the regions of Texas. He goes on easily about the “People’s Republic” of Austin, “the carcinogenic coast”…
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March 31, 2017
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Just after World War II, German author Erich Kästner published the children’s book Die Konferenz der Tiere (The Animals’ Conference) as call for World Peace. The illustrations were done by Walter Trier,…
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Employees at the Centre Pompidou (affectionately known by Parisians as the “Bo Bo,” after the area of Beaubourg where the museum is located) have been on strike all week, making…