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“... art market. Although their inclusion was central to the museum’s concept, they are peripheral to Donna Stein’s account of her time as an adviser to Pahlavi. The painter Bahman Mohases, whose work is in Tate Modern’s permanent collection, is mentioned fleetingly (he was ‘known to be homosexual and therefore despised by the Islamic ...”

“... his career he worked as a translator, notably of Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, Dos Passos, Melville and Dickens, and published essays on them and other English and American writers. In the 1930s, this was a conscious contribution to the Anti-Fascist intellectual culture which endured in Turin: as Pavese reminisced after the ...”

“... by the Beinecke Library at Yale, assuring them a place alongside those of Pound, Marinetti and Stein; a short story has recently been published in the New Yorker and a late essay on Bloomsbury appeared in the April number of Modernism/Modernity. Born in 1890, Mary Butts grew up at Salterns, the family house in Dorset. Her great-grandfather, Isaac ...”

“... some subtle form of courage.’To write about H.D in a biographical key presents a challenge, as Donna Krolik Hollenberg observes in Winged Words: H.D.’s novels, several unpublished in her lifetime, mostly romans à clef, show the poet working and reworking her biographical material. Her work offers its own highly charged life-writing as mythopoesis. A ...”

“... it is hard to believe he did not paint the portrait of Castiglione (in the Louvre) or the Donna Velata (in Palazzo Pitti) from life, whereas it is likely that the earlier portraits made in Florence were based on drawings. This is a topic of fundamental importance for Titian, who was, in his lifetime, considered as a successor to Raphael by his ...”

“... which consists of two canzones, written ten years apart, modelled on Cavalcanti’s poem ‘Donna mi priegha’. The first canzone, using Cavalcanti’s end rhymes, explains Marx’s labour theory of value, using phrases from Das Kapital. The sounds ‘n’ and ‘r’ are distributed throughout ‘according to the formula for a conic ...”

“... to him only as ‘un ami’ – not by name – in his book on Genet. When Said’s friend Jean Stein, the editor of Grand Street, asked him to review a book by Jean Baudrillard, he declined, saying that Baudrillard’s ideas are ‘all sort of like little burps’. He now preferred the company of Chomsky and John Berger, who believed that ‘there is ...”

“... in the mid-1960s when my mother drove us out to Poway see a friend of hers, a young woman named Donna, our former downstairs neighbour, who’d moved out of the apartments with her newborn baby when her husband, Mike, had shipped out to Vietnam. She’d found a kind of shack on a brush-covered slope where the rent was only 50 dollars a month – cheaper ...”