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Photo: Dennis van de Water It is, I suppose, another sign of advancing middle-age when one starts to be more intereste...

I've never been a great fan of Jean-Paul Sartre and fully endorse Heidegger's repudiation of the Frenchman's attempt to c...

Mexican red-headed parrot   For some reason, I have developed a sudden affection for parrots; or psittacines , as some people...

I remember being introduced from an early age to something my mother called fresh air  and which she seemed to hold in the highest po...

Les 120 Journées de Sodome ou l'école du libertinage  (1785)  Photo of the original manuscript: Benoit Tessier / Reuters ...

Photo of David Bowie by Masayoshi Sukita  wearing a striped bodysuit  by Kansai Yamamoto  designed for the Aladdin Sane Tour (19...

Photo: Gary Greenberg  sandgrains.com Everyone knows - and everyone seems to love - the opening line from William Blake's Au...

Heil honey, I'm home! Hitler's love life has long been subject to critical and clinical analysis, as well as sensational spe...

Boop-boop-a-doo! Whilst working on the Billy Wilder film Some Like It Hot  in the summer of 1958, Tony Curtis was asked what it was l...

Einai gar kei entautha theous One of the reasons that D. H. Lawrence continues to fascinate is because his work is an attempt to c...