Sheltered in a 1706 listed hôtel particulier in the heart of le Marais, MEP offers superbly curated exhibitions alongside archives going back to Daguerre.
Repeatedly, this superbly intelligent biography falls upon empty archives, archives one wants to believe were shrewdly emptied by Fitzgerald or by her three children (who wants biographers spelunking in family darknesses?), but which one fears, rather, were never full to begin with, because little was ever said, let alone recorded.
He came back, and no one in the family ever asked him anything". Repeatedly, this superbly intelligent biography falls upon empty archives, archives one wants to believe were shrewdly emptied by Fitzgerald or by her three children (who wants biographers spelunking in family darknesses?), but which one fears, rather, were never full to begin with, because little was ever said, let alone recorded.
Julien Temple's remarkable, heartwarming, superbly edited documentary combines music, archive footage, clips from old feature films and new interviews to create a vivid portrait of a changing London.
Their portrait of Lowry as a painter of modern life, in Baudelaire's deathless phrase, is superbly elaborated throughout in the exacting choice of paintings, photographs, archive films, snatches of George Formby and, of course, their own words.
Kvachi Kvachantiradze by Mikheil Javakhishvili (Dalkey Archive) is the sardonic picaresque masterpiece of 20th-century Georgian literature, finally available in English, superbly translated by Donald Rayfield.
"In this superbly researched and illustrated guide to the giant planet, the authors have trawled through centuries of humanity's archives for documentation of Jupiter, looking for engaging ways to explain what astronomers know about the planet, and how they found out...
