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Photo of Jane Birkin by Tony Frank used for the sleeve of  Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971)     As long-time readers...

Byung-Chul Han: author of Non-things , trans. Daniel Steuer (Polity Press, 2022). Page references given in the post refer to this work.     ...

Lorenzo di Credi: Portrait of Caterina Sforza    (c. 1481-83)   Se io potessi scrivere tutto, farei stupire il mondo!     I.    Nietzsche...

Théophile Steinlen's 1896 design for the famous  Parisian nightspot Le Chat Noir Poets, like witches and philosophers, love cat...

I. Sometimes, despite having the best of intentions, it can take five or six years to get around to reading a book and Michael Marde...

My frail and breaking sister  I hold these memories in my aching arms. I. The Numen of the Part-Human In shifting horror into...

  L'Inconnue de la Seine  (c. late-1880s)  A favourite pin-up of necrophiles I. How Even the Dead Can Continue to Make a...

Blue is the colour found between violet and green on the visible spectrum of light as perceived by human eyes. It comes in many differe...

Rilke is one of those poets I should probably appreciate more than I do. But, if I'm honest, I find the lyrical intensity and t...

Although the ingredients for Nivea Creme are openly available on the Beiersdorf website and are little different from other c...