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One of the people I've always quite liked but have never quite allowed myself to quite like, is David Bowie. I was perhaps just a l...

The Escaped Cock is Lawrence's revaluation of the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. He provides a convenient summary ...

Lawrence's relationship to Christianity, like Nietzsche's, grows ever less ambiguous and ever more hostile over the years; ...

In an early note, Nietzsche writes that the only appropriate attitude towards Christianity is kindly forbearance, since mockery, cyni...

Recently, at a party, I overheard what seemed an undeniably bitchy but nonetheless interesting remark: when told by a young Austra...

Like Zarathustra, I have always been a fan of girls who choose to devote themselves to the harsh discipline of classical dance: how...

Ivonne Thien: Thirty-Two Kilos (2008) Ours is an anorexic culture, writes Baudrillard; that is to say, a size-zero culture of sel...

The title for this post was to have been the question of style.  However - it is woman who will be my subject. Still, one might  ...

As an American sit-com loving child of the 1970s, I grew up with Valerie Harper as Rhoda Morgenstern and mentioned her only a c...

Portrait of Angela Carter by Tara Heinemann in which  she brings out the almost spectral beauty of the subject Used with permissi...