Lopate on Cartier-Bresson’s Lincoln Brigade film
Leonard Lopate, at WNYC, interviews Juan Salas and Jeanne Houck about Cartier-Bresson’s With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
Nobody remembers Lloyd Mallan. I came across his name while writing a book on poet- playwright Federico García Lorca’s iconic afterlife. Mallan’s piece on the poet’s assassination, published in 1939, was instrumental in spreading to the U.S. and Canada a highly embellished narrative of poetic martyrdom that helped shape the public image of Lorca....
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