RecipeMama In a tiny kitchen in our flat my mother and I have just lost a small pancake, or a pikelet. My mother was turning over the pikelets in the frying pan when this little fellow slipped off a s...
An ordinary metro station… …and the guy by the wall Back in 2007 I told a tearful story of how I was trying to take a picture of Myron’s Discobolus at the British Museum in London....
It is widely believed that queueing is the British national passion. On numerous occasions we have been told that the British love making an orderly queue at the every opportunity. But there is one fi...
Just to carry on for a bit more en Français, these are the photo I took during the Moscow Design Week in October 2010. While I’m not sure I’d love to sleep on the silk bedsheets every sing...
I had a wonderful lecturer in Philosophy in my first two years at the University. We only ever had seminars with him, partly I guess because he was very old. He celebrated his birthday on November 7, ...
There is a story I love telling about me visiting St Petersburg in late August of 2002. I and Daniel had just returned after a month in Manchester back to Russia (it was the first year of our marriage...
Whenever we talk about goals, one question inevitably rises: what if you are not reaching them? Say, you have a noble goal, and your mind is all set on it, but, in spite of all the effort, you’r...
Castaneda’s books insist otherwise. He is eloquent and convincing on how useless it is to explain or judge another culture entirely in terms of one’s own particular categories. “Supp...
Sébastien Le Fol blogs about culture and arts for Le Figaro. His most recent piece was on the subject of why the Parisians seem to similarly adore both Claude Monet and Basquiat whose exhibitions are ...
A few people recently have shared their “success recipes”. One comes from Elena Lenina, the most famous Russian in modern France. According to her, success is granted on the following four...