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  Zanele Muholi Self-Portrait (2016) from the series  Somnyama Ngonyama ('Hail The Dark Lioness') The Cooper Gallery     I.    Raci...

  What the tabloids like to call Freedom Day - June 21st - the day when the UK is due to abandon the last of its lockdown restrictions and ...

(Bloomsbury, 2021)     I.   What does it mean when a biographer of D. H. Lawrence declares that she is "unable to distinguish between L...

(Bloomsbury, 2021)     Anyone setting out to write a new biography of D. H. Lawrence has two initial problems:   Firstly, they have to find ...

Photo of Frances Wilson by Jonathan Ring     I.    Once, in 1983, when I was twenty-years-old, I was riding in a car with a producer from th...

Bright Red Poppy (SA/2021)     This morning, a large bright red poppy has burst into flame at the top of my garden and it naturally trigger...

A touching expression of ontological gratitude ...  or a sinister form of zen fascism?     I.    Anyone who has recently visited a UK hospi...

Stephen Alexander:   The Colour of Pain (2021)     I.    The first post published on Torpedo the Ark was entitled Reflections on the Loss o...

Yulia Tsvetkova: 'Living Women Have Body Hair - And It's Normal!'  Drawing from the series A Woman is Not a Doll (2018)    I.  ...

Lorenzo di Credi: Portrait of Caterina Sforza    (c. 1481-83)   Se io potessi scrivere tutto, farei stupire il mondo!     I.    Nietzsche...