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The Sarco Pod : every home should have one ...     I.    Some readers might recall a news story from late 2021 which reported that someone ...

Christine Pascal, Gilles Deleuze & Olga Georges-Picot     I.   Last night, on TV, they were showing one of my favourite films: the Briti...

The Lad Himself Anthony [Aloysius St John] Hancock  (1924 - 1968)     On this day in 1968, the English comic actor Tony Hancock committed su...

Harry Crosby (1898-1929) and Hart Crane (1899-1932)   La plus volontaire mort c'est la plus belle.     I.    The initials HC mean diffe...

Jill Bennett  (as Aunt Pen in The Nanny , 1965)     Jill Bennett (1931-1990) was a British actress and - to her great misfortune - the fourt...

The Moon: lovely to look at but ineffective Still, today - even in Parliament - there are people who subscribe in all seriousness ...

Photo of Evelyn McHale, by Robert C. Wiles.  For poets, there is nothing more romantic than the suicide of someone young; particu...

Francesca Woodman: Providence, Rhode Island, 1976 (1976) Tate / National Galleries of Scotland ( AR00352 ) © George and Betty Woodma...

Tipu's Tiger (Victoria and Albert Museum) In the news at the moment is the case of zookeeper Sarah McClay, who was killed by...

  Portrait by Rinaldo Hopf (2004) Michel Foucault was always deeply attracted to the idea of suicide as one he could darkly caress an...

Photo: Adam Rowney, Suicide Rainbow , 2009 I have always been attracted to the idea of suicide. Not because I feel particularly world...