Hot Nights at the Barbican

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 3, 2019July 3, 2019 Arts

Click Here to Read: Hot Nights at the Barbican by Paul Levy on his Plain English blog on July 1, 2019.

Studio floor used by Jackson Pollock at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs, New York. The studio is in an old barn behind the house. Pollock had the building moved, put a wood floor down and used it as his primary painting surface from 1946 until his death in 1956. When he renovated in 1953, he put down a masonite covering. Krasner started to use the room in 1957. Upon her death in 1984, ownership was transferred to Stony Brook University, who removed the covering, discovered the old surface, and had it restored in 1987-8.15 August 2015, 15:39:06
Photo: Rododendrites. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Should We Love Our Country?

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 2, 2019July 2, 2019 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Should We Love Our Country? Fourth of July ruminations on the nation-state and the state of the nation By Paul Berman on the Tablet website on July 2, 2019.

July 4th fireworks, Washington, D.C. 2008 Photo: Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

A New “Law” Suggests Quantum Supremacy Could Happen This Year

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 2, 2019July 2, 2019 Science

Click Here to Read: A New “Law” Suggests Quantum Supremacy Could Happen This Year: Quantum computers are improving at a doubly exponential rate By Kevin Hartnett on the Scientific American Quanta Magazine website on June 21, 2019.

A zooming in on a wafer of D-Wave Vesuvius architecture. Photo by Steve Jurvetson from Menlo Park, USA. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Distance from Home at the Boston Athenaeum

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 1, 2019July 1, 2019 EVENTS, Literature

Dear Friends,

I delighted to be talking about my novel The Distance from Home at the Boston Athenaeum, a library Sue and I have long admired. It would be an additional pleasure if you could join us for the reading. As seating is limited, I will need to tell the library how many, other than Athenaeum members, will attend. Could you let me know within the week whether or not you are able to come?

With best wishes for a summer full of good weather and good times, Dan

MEMBERS’ CHOICE EVENT: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 – 6:30pm to 7:30pm
10 ½ Beacon St, Boston, MA 02108

Join author Daniel Jacobs for a discussion of his novel, The Distance from Home. This compelling and sweeping story follows Hannah Avery, a woman Continue reading The Distance from Home at the Boston Athenaeum

Antony Polonsky, “The Jedwabne Debate: Poles, Jews and the Problems of a Divided Memory”

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 1, 2019July 1, 2019 Books, History, Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Antony Polonsky, “The Jedwabne Debate: Poles, Jews and the Problems of a Divided Memory,” in Murray Baumgarten, Peter Kenez and Bruce Thompson, eds., Varieties of Antisemitism: History, Ideology, Discourse (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2009), 179-192.

The Intimate Letters of Sigmund Freud

By Tamar SchwartzJune 29, 2019June 29, 2019 History, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: The Intimate Letters of Sigmund Freud: The vast trove of Sigmund Freud’s letters sheds light not only on the subjects that occupied the father of psychoanalysis, but also on the role the very act of writing them played in his life By Eran Rolnik on the Haaretz website on June 29, 2019.

Google Images. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Music Box Films Acquires Fantasia Fest Winner ‘Therapy For A Vampire’

By Tamar SchwartzJune 29, 2019June 29, 2019 Film, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Music Box Films Acquires Fantasia Fest Winner ‘Therapy For A Vampire’ by Zack Sharf on the Indie Wire website on September 29, 2015.