By Maria Bregman Mira Murati, the former Chief Technology Officer of OpenAI, has launched a new AI startup named Thinking Machines Lab. The company aims…
By Maria Bregman, writer and literary critic In the sentience of paradox, where shadow and light entwine, François Villon emerges as the quintessential voice of…
By Maria Bregman, writer and literary critic In an age where history is often reduced to footnotes, Edmund de Waal’s The Hare with Amber Eyes…
By Maria Bregman, writer and literary critic In the shadowed corridors of literary history, one name reverberates with a peculiar chill: Nikolai Gogol. Celebrated as…
By Maria Bregman, writer and literary critic Material prepared from a conversation between poet, essayist, and literary critic Dmitry Bobyshev and writer Maria Bregman. Dmitry…
By Maria Bregman, writer and literary critic Ernest Hemingway remains one of the titans of twentieth-century literature, a figure whose life and work continue to exert…
By Maria Bregman, author and film critic When Guy Ritchie unleashes a new crime saga, cultural seismographs tremble. Gangsterland (or MobLand to purists) isn’t merely…
By Maria Bregman, writer and literary critic The name William Shakespeare conjures velvet curtains parting on eternal truths – yet the man himself remains history’s…
By Maria Bregman, writer and theatre critic In a dimly lit rehearsal room in Hammersmith, Dmitry Krymov – Moscow’s exiled theatrical maestro – orchestrates a…
By Maria Bregman, writer and literary critic Sherlock Holmes – the sharp-boned, cocaine-injecting detective of 221B Baker Street – has outlived his creator’s disdain by…