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Marina Molares The Wild Party (2011)   flickr.com   Party animal (n); a very gregarious and outgoing person  who enjoys parties and sim...

  Singer and songwriter Nellie Mackay  Poet and novelist Michel Houellebecq    "My oh my, walkin' by  Who's the apple of my eye...

Illustration by Severo Pozzati (1957)  used to advertise Maggi pot-au-feu beef cubes   Venez à moi, vous dont l’estomac crie misère, et je ...

Jacques Prévert: Je ne suis pas un con!     I.    One of the idiomatic expressions that I hate most is: It takes one to know one .    Used b...

The MIT Press (2017)     I.    Neue deutsche Denke are a bit like buses; you wait ages for one to come along, then two or three arrive on t...

An Indonesian sea turtle and a 19th century German philosopher As everyone knows, Schopenhauer thought the world a manifestat...

Front cover of the Polity Press edition (2020) designed by Adam Renvoize I. The fact that Michel Houellebecq loves Schopenhauer...

Photo from Human Nature (2012) by Daikichi Amano daikichiamano.com Torpedophiles with a good memory might recall that I have pre...

Front cover of the English hardback edition William Heinemann (2019) In the end, even your favourite writers let you down. And ...

Caricature of J-K Huysmans (1885) To be honest, I increasingly find that I have to be in a very particular frame of mind to read 19t...

Bloomsbury (2017) Douglas Murray's new book, The Strange Death of Europe , addresses very contemporary concerns to do with immig...

Tony Luciani: Internal Reflection ,   from  Mamma: In the Meantime (2016) (A series of photos and paintings featuring his...