The first colour photography from Russia – in pictures
Mee-Lai Stone, The Guardian

Portrait of Alexey Nikolaevich Tiutchev with his wife Anna Iosifovna and their daughters Anna and Maria Alekseyevna, 1864. Photograph: Piotr Vedenisov
Mee-Lai Stone, The Guardian

Portrait of Alexey Nikolaevich Tiutchev with his wife Anna Iosifovna and their daughters Anna and Maria Alekseyevna, 1864. Photograph: Piotr Vedenisov
«Feminism brought the opposition together. But how long will that last, and how many converts can it win?» Un article du New York Times: How a Fractious Women’s Movement Came to Lead the Left
Critique de Louise Foxcroft dans New Humanism . When Naomi’s Wolf’s Vagina dropped through my letterbox I must admit I was quite taken aback. The accompanying press release shrieks that the book “radically reframes how we understand the vagina – and consequently, how we understand women”. Wolf had, apparently, uncovered “an increasing body of scientific…
The Economist explique. The election of Pope Francis on March 13th was surprising for several reasons. He is the first pope from South America, making him the first non-European since the 8th century. He is also the only pope to take the name Francis—evoking the humility of St Francis of Assisi, a 12th century Italian monk. Most surprising of all,…
La journaiste Julie Turgeon nous résume Home again in Mexico: Illegal immigration hits net zero publié dans The Christian Science Monitor Weekly magazine. Ces jours-ci, Pedro Laguna serait sans doute en train de couper du poulet dans une usine de transformation en Géorgie. Mais pas cette année. Après vingt ans de travail illégal aux États-Unis, il…
(Dans cette province, on ne peut acheter de la bière ou du vin ailleurs que dans les magasins du gouvernement.) Communiqué de presse du Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) : Les employés de la LCBO prêts à descendre dans l’arène pour empêcher le gouvernement d’élargir le marché de la vente de vin et de bière…
Quinn Norton dans Notes from a Strange World