Fyodor Khitruk, 1917–2012
The pioneering Russian animator Fyodor Khitruk has died at age ninety-five. Perhaps best known for his adaptations of A. A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh stories, Khitru’s work was often political and...
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Today is A. A. Milne’s birthday. While he is certainly best known as the creator of Winnie the Pooh, Milne was a prolific writer who came to resent his association with the beloved bear of very little...
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You must begin your week by looking at this list of head-scratching moments from Indian comics. “Facing him on the stage was his white-haired wife Vera, whom he identified only as ‘my course...
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Christopher Robin Milne with Winnie the Pooh in 1928.Christopher Robin Milne’s first two memoirs, The Enchanted Places and The Path Through the Trees, are in the canon of great ambivalence books....
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Arista Alanis, “ … on down the road” (detail), oil on canvas, 30″ x 24″. From the cover of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude. I first encountered Arthur Schnitzler’s work as an undergraduate, when I...
View ArticleFyodor Khitruk, 1917–2012
The pioneering Russian animator Fyodor Khitruk has died at age ninety-five. Perhaps best known for his adaptations of A. A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh stories, Khitru’s work was often political and...
View Article“Things Grown-Ups Talk About”
Today is A. A. Milne’s birthday. While he is certainly best known as the creator of Winnie the Pooh, Milne was a prolific writer who came to resent his association with the beloved bear of very little...
View ArticleIndian Comics, Professor Nabokov, and Other News
You must begin your week by looking at this list of head-scratching moments from Indian comics. “Facing him on the stage was his white-haired wife Vera, whom he identified only as ‘my course...
View ArticleSay Your Prayers
Christopher Robin Milne with Winnie the Pooh in 1928. Christopher Robin Milne’s first two memoirs, The Enchanted Places and The Path Through the Trees, are in the canon of great ambivalence books....
View ArticleStaff Picks: Constipation, Hubris, Sincerity
Arista Alanis, “ … on down the road” (detail), oil on canvas, 30″ x 24″. From the cover of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude. I first encountered Arthur Schnitzler’s work as an undergraduate, when I...
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