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And the inimitable Marlowe is able to prove that trouble really is his business in Raymond Chandler's brilliant epitaph

Alexander Calder (1898–1976) moved to Paris in the late 1920s

embarks on a day trip from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to pick up a fifteen thousand dollar advance in cash

Ornament and Crime Anna Burns a day on which “noRevolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism from one of the great masters of modern architecture Adolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of stripped down, clean simplicity. He was also a writer of effervescent, caustic wit, as shown in this selection of essays on all aspects of design and aesthetics, from cities to glassware, furniture to