Monthly Archives: September 2025

Flaubert and Caillebotte

While reading Michel Winock’s biography of Flaubert (Gallimard, 2013), I came across these reflections: The trip Flaubert undertook in Brittany with his friend Du Camp proves that, when he wanted to free himself from his mother’s control, Gustave did so … Continue reading

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Random Links

Donald Trump’s Big Gay Government: On the town with the A-Gays of Washington, who have never been happier to be out, proud and Republican (The New York Times). Florida Paints Over Rainbow Memorial for Victims of Pulse Nightclub Shooting (The … Continue reading

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From Gregory to Gloria: How DEI Shapes the Remembrance of a Hemingway

A surprising detail appeared in the recent New York Times obituary of Patrick Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway’s last surviving son, who died at the age of 97. The article referred to his sibling this way: Hemingway’s third child, Gloria Hemingway, was … Continue reading

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A new biography of C. P. Cavafy

Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography (G. Jusdanis and P. Jeffreys, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025) has been released recently. Its review in the TLS starts with: Constantine Petrou Cavafy (1863–1933): a poet of obscure history and an eroticism so gentle, … Continue reading

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