E. K. Myerson

Oct 9, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Lesley Chamberlain |Anthony Head |Lily Herd |E. K. Myerson

The poet Rainer Maria Rilke met the painter Paula Becker in the summer of 1900. He had come to Worpswede, a village in north Germany, to join the small, vibrant artistic community established there in 1889. Both were twenty-four, and ambitious artists. The group spent an enchanted summer talking about art and drinking wine. But in October Rilke felt the need for “the big city” and returned to Berlin. So a correspondence began.

Oct 9, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | E. K. Myerson |Anthony Head |Lily Herd |Terri Apter

The Malleus Maleficarum is a medieval inquisition document, written in Latin by the fifteenth-century German inquisitor Heinrich Kramer (under the name Henricus Institoris) and now republished in an updated translation by Peter Maxwell-Stuart. Like many medieval manuscripts it is a compilation: it contains a disquisition on the nature of magic, a series of mirabilia (marvellous anecdotes) and a practical legal handbook.

Oct 9, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Samuel Goff |Anthony Head |Lily Herd |E. K. Myerson

The Soviet Union in the 1920s was, in the words of the pioneering nonfiction film-maker Dziga Vertov, a “factory of facts”. Reality itself was in a state of revolution: a state that had been ravaged by war and upheaval was in the throes of modernization, throwing up new experiences and information at a dizzying rate.