torpedo the ark

Above: Harry Worth demonstrating the comic potential of a mirror image in 1962  Below: an illustration by N. Burgess showing the chemical st...

Mick Robertson and Jenny Hanley on set of the Thames TV show Magpie (c. 1977)     I.    Whenever I see a magpie, I think of the ornithomant...

Joan Fontaine as Mrs de Winter and Judith Anderson  as Mrs Danvers in Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940) [a]     I.    As a provocateur, I'...

I.    Regular readers will recall that back in April of this year, I went along to the Horse Hospital to view the overtly political artwork ...

Stephen Alexander: God Save Samuel Beckett (2024)  (à la Jamie Reid) [1]     There are many reasons other than his dark humour and finely...

Photo of Soo Catwoman by Ray Stevenson (1976) The slogan is a paraphrase of a sentence written by Walter Benjamin [1]     "Why do we fe...

  Jonathan Cape (2017)     I.    As long-time readers of Torpedo the Ark will know, whilst, as a nihilist, my default position is always pai...

Melissa Mesku and the  Ship of Theseus     I.    A correspondent who knows her Greek mythology (and her French literary theory) writes:   I...

Lorenzo Costa: The Argo (detail of a panel painting c. 1480–90)  Civic Museum, Padua, Italy     I.    As everybody knows, the Ἀργοναῦται we...