In the magnifying glass of the poetic word, Modernism is the history of the twentieth century; it was, you may remember a turbulent history—utopian hopes, political polarisation, prejudice, wars, and ...

I admire the mediæval cathedrals as much as anybody, and I am perfectly prepared to recognize the greatness and uniqueness of mediæval craftsmanship. But I believe that æstheticism must never be used ...

The anti-intellectualism of the intellectuals. INVESTIGATORS ARE, BY NATURE, INDIVIDUALISTS. We look out for number one and we aren’t in the habit of binding our fates to others—no collective ...

I do not think that any one who takes the pains to become acquainted with the Oraculo Manual, either in Shopenhauer’s translation or in Spanish, will think that the words of commendation which I have ...

Lyric is understood here as a problem, solved or unsolved, concerning the representation of the self, initially, I think, regarding the processing of the authorial voice in the demands of poetical ...

OLIVE CUSTANCE WAS the long-suffering wife of Lord Alfred Douglas, the beautiful young man over whom Oscar Wilde lost his reputation, livelihood and family. But at the same time Lord Alfred was ...

Arab slavers prey upon the tribes. Leopold’s ghost will never sleep, Pinched and prodded everywhere by amputated hands. Allah and Jehovah have both behaved like vultures over Africa, Imagining a ...

The city reconfigures humanity, and re-constellates experience. This was true in Ur or Jericho, and it is true in nineteenth-century Paris. Administrative concentration, an arable and pastoral surplus ...

One of the most striking aspects of the ‘Portrait of Doctor Gachet’ is the resemblance of the subject with the artist. Paul Gachet’s aquiline nose, pointed face, his yellow hair tinged with red, the ...

Now Charlie’s 1930s Martin was a commodity. It had been made in a market, made for money by people working for money. And yet. Such love and devotion had been poured into its creation, such pride, ...

BENJAMIN TELLS US the allegorist so conquers the meaning of the texts or objects falling under his gaze that when he has finished they can appear merely the dead husks of themselves, having yielded ...

With a cruel flavour. All the other wives and concubines resorted to The most abject flattery, desperate to win her favour. Her Sultan tyrant also had a penchant for a Moorish page: Souluk, a sweet, ...