Bill Holdsworth
By Bill Holdsworth
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Culture How Amy Winehouse Risked Everything To Try To Change the World
Without the tattoos, Amy Winehouse was like the Jewish girl I kissed behind a plywood cutout of film actor Spencer Tracy as we walked back from a Saturday morning film show at the Gaumont Cinema along Albert Street, where I once lived in north London’s Camden Town district. This memory of my youth was one…
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Books Why Vasily Grossman Still Matters
“Life and Fate,” the 900-page opus by Vasily Semyonovich Grossman, is important not only as literature, but also as a history of Stalinist Russia. Since 2006 it has been available as a paperback from NYRB Classics, recently turned into a radio play on U.K.’s BBC 4, and a newly minted paperback can now be found…
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Culture Forgotten Jewish Dada-ists Get Their Due
The killing fields of World War I produced a bonfire of certainties: Old ways of seeing and believing were twisted and shattered; art, architecture, book-cover designs, music, photography, politics and the very way we dressed and lived were all turned on their heads. Being “avant-garde” was exhilarating. “Dada” was one of the most radical of…
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