Culture 文艺版块 This great stage of fools 这满是傻瓜的偌大舞台 Sir Kenneth Branaghs bold production of King Lear makes the case for tragic art. 肯尼思布拉纳爵士大胆突破的《李尔王》证明了悲剧艺术的意义所在。...
Culture 文艺版块 Book review 书评 Why seekers of enlightenment head for India. 为什么寻求心灵开悟的人都前往印度。 The Nirvana Express. By Mick Brown. 《涅槃号快车》，米克布朗著。 For decades India has mostly run a...
Culture 文艺版块 Book review 书评 Spelling glee 词语的欢乐 The Dictionary People. By Sarah Ogilvie. 《编写词典的人》，萨拉奥格尔维 In July 1915 an ailing James Murray, one of the early editors of the Oxford English Dictionar...
Culture 文艺版块 Johnson 约翰逊专栏 How to write well 如何练就好文笔 A new book lays out the data in favour of sharp, simple writing. 一本新书用数据证明了简练明晰的写作风格的好处。 Do you edit text messages care...
In many ways BookTok has become a new artistic genre, where emoting about characters and plots is glorified, even required. 在很多方面，BookTok已经成为一种新的文艺流派，与书中人物和情节同喜同悲是受到赞扬的，甚至是...
Culture 文艺版块 TikTok is changing the way books are recommended and soldTikTok正在改变推荐和销售书籍的方式 First the camera pans across eight books arrayed with hundreds of sticky tabs, flaunting that they have been closely read a...
Culture 文艺版块 The art of dying 死亡的艺术 Lots of people mourn when famous writers and musicians die. Why? 当著名作家和音乐人去世时，很多人都会哀悼。为什么？ After Alexander Pushkin was shot in a duel in 1837, cro...
Culture 文艺版块 Johnson 约翰逊专栏 In an age of typing handwriting still matters在打字时代，手写依然很重要。 Two and a half millennia ago, Socrates complained that writing would harm students. 两千五百年前，苏格拉底抱...
Culture 文艺版块 Book review 书评 A mirror on our times and theirs 镜中的现代和古代 How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity. By Jill Burke. 《文艺复兴时期女性宝典：关于美丽和女性...
Culture 文艺版块 World in a dish 盘中世界 A moveable feast 流动的盛宴 A new book celebrates Chinese food's spread and savour. 一本新书赞颂了中国菜肴的丰富和美味。 About a decade ago, this correspondent attended a banque...
