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Lars Chittka: The Mind of a Bee (Princeton University Press, 2022) Stephen Buchmann: What a Bee Knows (Island Press, 2023)   I.    Accordi...

Leon Black / Herman Melville / Moby Dick     I.    A friend of mine, Anja, has decided to read Melville's epic novel Moby-Dick (1851) b...

Portrait of le poète maudit Síomón Solomon Stephen Alexander (2023) [1]     According to the Satanist Simon Solomon, at the root of all hu...

Illustration by Jonathan McHugh (2021)   beepencil.com   Well, how are you enjoying your newly returned freedom post-June 21st? Doesn't ...

We cannot help regarding the phenomenon of Greta with wonder,  fear,  amazement, and respect.  For in her the spirit of modern childh...

Lawrence's essay on Whitman in his Studies in Classic American Literature  (1923) is more piss-take than critical analysis. Lawr...

Credit: durantelallera/Shutterstock I. Everything's Funny As I said in a recent post, one of the things that the phrase torpe...

Marc-Édouard Nabe: Lawrence assis  (2007) Ink and watercolour (24 x 32 cm) marcedouardnabe.com The ideal man! And which...

Man can find his individual isolation or discontinuity hard to bear. Thus he often seeks primal unity, or a return to universal one...