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Curbing their enthusiasm: Socrates, Maria Thanassa & Larry David       I.    According to Maria Thanassa [1] , notions of sobriety and ...

Byung-Chul Han pictured with the Spanish language edition of Die Krise der Narration (2023) [a] I.    Byung-Chul Han is very good at coming...

B is for ...  Baudelaire, Bataille, Barthes, and Baudrillard     There are many French things that I love beginning with the letter B - from...

  Georgia O'Keeffe: Black Hills with Cedar (1941) Oil on canvas (16 x 30 in.)     Let us beware of thinking that the world is a living...

Illustration by David Henry Friston  for Le Fanu's Carmilla (1872) I.  19th-century Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu ...

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

Cover art for the single 'Melt!' by Siouxsie and the Banshees  (Polydor, 1982)  "Are you familiar with the fright...

The decadent aristocrat Des Esseintes, whose retreat into an increasingly perverse and artificial inner life is depicted with such br...

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...

Come, beautiful puss, press close to my loving heart; Retract your claws,   Let me gaze into your crystal-metallic eyes. ...

Lucia Pica photographed by Daniel Jackson  Vogue (Sept 2015) Like many people, when I heard a couple of years ago that Italian-b...

Zabrena: Historically Accurate: Ancient Egypt / Cleopatra Makeup Tutorial YouTube (8 Oct 2014): click here .  One of the...

Jasmin Savoy-Brown cast as Emilia Bassano,  believed by some to be Shakespeare's Dark Lady  Photo: John Willy (2016) I have...