Esme Bright

Oct 21, 2024 | thespectator.com | Esme Bright |Freddy Gray |Andrew Sullivan |Philip Womack

“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else.” The final installment of Deborah Levy’s “Living” biographies, Real Estate, begins with this quote from the artist Georgia O’Keefe.

Oct 21, 2024 | thespectator.com | Mark Piesing |Esme Bright |Philip Womack |Frank Lawton

In May 1942, Agent Zo was in the home stretch after a long and risky mission that had placed her in Berlin, at the heart of Nazi Germany. As usual, she picked up a small stone and threw it at the second-floor window of her sister’s apartment in a grimy industrial city in occupied Poland, south of Warsaw. But no one in the flat turned on a light, the agreed signal. She threw another. Nothing happened.

Oct 21, 2024 | thespectator.com | Esme Bright |Dave Seminara |Roger Kimball |Charles Lipson

“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else.” The final installment of Deborah Levy’s “Living” biographies, Real Estate, begins with this quote from the artist Georgia O’Keefe.