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Rigas Laiks 3/2007
3/2007
Through Russia to nirvana. On David Remnick: Some consider the current editor-in-chief of the New Yorker the "most influential writer in the world", whose opinion is sometimes taken into account even by politicians.
Untruth and consequences: Why American presidents lie. Translated from the Atlantic
Me and only me. On Michel Montaigne: "If the readers knew themselves the same way Montaigne knows himself, they would be so ashamed!"
De la Vanité: Excerpts from Essais (III, 9)
Leibowitz without Sontag. On Annie Leibowitz's A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005. "The structure of the album is actually more determined by the photographer's sorrow remembering what she considers life than by her life."
Poškus' long thought. Interview with the Latvian film director Juris Poškus
To be alone. Letter from Paris on the presidential elections in France and Latvia
The toy story. Anna Nicole Smith and contemporary courtesans
The school of fools. Individual ability and education
Another revolution on Champs Elysees
The Pilchard war is over. On the principles for selecting the national fish
Some aspects of applauding. On the new trend of applauding in the middle of a musical composition
Girls, are you healthy?
Shakespeare the man. On 1599: a Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, by James Shapiro
Scattered clouds, wind from who knows where. Venice diaries
Books are in. Last sentences in thirty novels published by "Diena"
The line of beauty. On William Hoggarth at the Tate
Under water. On Latvian film director Lailas Pakalniņa's festival production