Past Samaritan

Kaamya Sharma -

Visualising The Past

Nathan Goldwag | Goldwag’s Journal On Civilisation | 26th October 2024

On the maps that newspapers featured to help their readers follow the course of WWII. In the wake of Blitzkrieg, the LA Times had a cut-and-preserve map of the theatre of war. Details included potential rail and sea corridors from the Allied powers to Poland, naval bases, fortifications, and the aerial distance between cities, “as the artist tried to grapple with the new kind of warfare still being born” (3,000 words) | Share this on X

Hemingway And The Good Samaritan

William E. Cain | Slant Books | 11th November 2024

Hemingway wrote on the “principle of the iceberg — 1/8th above the surface, 7/8th below”. He excelled at this demanding aesthetic, showing writers “how to use the silences between words”. An overlooked influence in Hemingway’s “art of omission” is the King James Bible. “A good writer knows what not to say, an insight he absorbed from years of experience reading and listening to the Bible” (1,400 words) | Share this on X

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