Memories of Starobielsk: Essays Between Art and History

Memories of Starobielsk: Essays Between Art and HistoryInterned with thousands of Polish officers in the Soviet prisoner of war camp at Starobielsk in September 1939, Jozef Czapski was one of a very small number to survive the massacre in the forest of Katyn in April 1940. Memories of Starobielsk portrays these doomed men, some with the detail of a finished portrait, others in vivid sketches that mingle intimacy with respect, as Czapski describes their struggle to remain human under hopeless

Scrolling through history: A true discovery: The Esther Scroll of 1746The use of scrolls dates back to ancient times

Winter is a rich

the first ever hip-hop show on the channel

but reclaims it

a home movie by Alistair Cooke featuring Chaplin and actress Paulette Goddard

It reached number two on the R&B chart Band number 47 on the Billboard Hot 100

Cain’s rich psychological novel as a murder mystery

Equal parts historian and anthropologist

The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons

Passport Photo Service includes such famous faces as Muhammad Ali

Gysin's inventive ideas also extended to permutated poems and to the development in 1961 of the Dreamachine - 'the first art object to be seen with the eyes closed' - capable of producing a change of consciousness in the viewer

Between 1968 and 1986