torpedo the ark

Image by Zena McKeown (2012) Strangely it always becomes necessary to speak about the phallus when thinking about the sun: for wha...

Donald Duck © The Walt Disney Company / Howard the Duck © Marvel Worldwide, Inc. Daffy Duck © Warner Bros. Inc. I have never ...

Picture by Phischer: Van Gogh's Ear (2007) www.worth1000.com Although the facts of the case were disputed in 2009 by two...

One of the figures who captivated my adolescent imagination and who has subsequently continued to shape my adult understanding o...

Quetzalcoatl was Lawrence's first version of the novel that would be published after extensive rewriting as The Plumed Serpent...

American Apparel (2014) As regular readers of torpedo the ark will have gathered, I have a perverse critical interest in pygmalionism...

Photo of Dasha Zhukova copyright Buro 24/7 The above picture of fashion designer and magazine editor Dasha Zhukova, in which she si...

Despite what I wrote in a recent post ( Delphinophilia ), some people neither wish to swim with dolphins, nor have sex with them. Rat...

A lot of people claim to love dolphins and dream of swimming with them so that they too might experience something of the sheer j...

Tom Friedman: Untitled (A Curse) , 1992 One of the nice things about having English-Lit scholar and TV star Dr Catherine Brown as a f...