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ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN

The Parish Church is full to bursting. Light pours through the ancient stained-glass windows. The glorious notes of a Beethoven sonata fill the air. I glance down at Chuck Berry’s shoes as the Minister’s voice intones those familiar words: “Who gives this woman?” I answer firmly: “I do.” It was nineteen-eighty-something. I was a young man, free as air, making…

Unclothed

We have to start with a vital distinction famously drawn by art historian Sir Kenneth Clark: the ‘nude’ is an idealisation, a means of affirming ultimate perfection, and a tangible vision of ideal beauty, though varying from culture to culture and from era to era. While to be naked means…

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Former diplomat and globetrotter, Dan Costinas is a versatile contemporary writer, translator, and editor. A true polyglot, he has authored and contributed to several dozen books spanning mainly fiction, essays, aphorisms, reviews and criticism, journalism, and poetry.

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Books of Our Continent

From the quiet shelves of forty-four national archives and ancient university libraries to the cosy corners of independent bookstores and modest home…

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