Tag Alex Ross

The Gulf of Mongolia

Alex Ross, the author of The Rest Is Noise and the musical critic of The New Yorker, wrote in his 2007 article on Jean Sibelius: Finns are strangers to the European family. Descendants of an errant Mongolian tribe, they speak a…

Trivia and Miscellanea

Courtesy of Russia’s Unified Energy Systems and its Moscow subsidiary, Mosenergo, the word “blackout” has now entered the Russian language. I’d rather it had not — not through those corporate sponsors at least. Both companies are partly foreign-owned — good…