Category Archives: Bohemians
22 books for 2022
We’ve got bad gays, can-can dancers and pataphysicians, we’ve got a Black Pope, an Expressionist Joan of Arc and the Last Emperor of Mexico. Won’t you join us?
22 books for 2022
We’ve got bad gays, can-can dancers and pataphysicians, we’ve got a Black Pope, an Expressionist Joan of Arc and the Last Emperor of Mexico. Won’t you join us?
Secret Satan, 2021 part 2
Dreaming rebels, dames and showgirls, emphatic queers and seekers of the Elysian Fields
Secret Satan, 2021 part 2
Dreaming rebels, dames and showgirls, emphatic queers and seekers of the Elysian Fields
Secret Satan, 2021 part 1
From Romanian avant-garde Elvis to all the Swedish anarchist Sufi Post-Impressionsists you can imagine
Secret Satan, 2021 part 1
From Romanian avant-garde Elvis to all the Swedish anarchist Sufi Post-Impressionsists you can imagine
Introducing Papa Hamlet
My latest translation for Rixdorf Editions, in case you’ve been wondering why things have been quiet around here …
Introducing Papa Hamlet
My latest translation for Rixdorf Editions, in case you’ve been wondering why things have been quiet around here …
Summer* reading list
A selection of beach reads – only some of them ironically so!
The bohemian countess and her foster fatherland
Writer Franziska zu Reventlow and a warning about heedless nationalism on the 150th anniversary of her birth
The bohemian countess and her foster fatherland
Writer Franziska zu Reventlow and a warning about heedless nationalism on the 150th anniversary of her birth
21 books for 2021
A selection of works with which to while away your second or third lockdown.
Secret Satan, 2020
Books to remember from a year you probably want to forget
Dear King of Holland
Else Lasker-Schüler returns to the Brandenburg Gate. Unfortunately, she’s not alone …
Dear King of Holland
Else Lasker-Schüler returns to the Brandenburg Gate. Unfortunately, she’s not alone …
Else Lasker-Schüler, 1920
The writer and artist appears at the Bauhaus in Weimar, 100 years ago today
Else Lasker-Schüler, 1920
The writer and artist appears at the Bauhaus in Weimar, 100 years ago today
20 books for 2020
In which we visit Rogomelec and Sealand, the castle of truth and a fern-loved gully
20 books for 2020
In which we visit Rogomelec and Sealand, the castle of truth and a fern-loved gully
Love among the ruins
The sublime Leonor Fini, plus cats. All the cats.
Strange Flowers guide to Vienna, part 2
… in which we head further afield and meet Peter Altenberg and some other folk, but honestly, it’s mainly Peter Altenberg.
Strange Flowers guide to Vienna, part 2
… in which we head further afield and meet Peter Altenberg and some other folk, but honestly, it’s mainly Peter Altenberg.
Secret Satan, 2019 translation edition
“We are both monarch and victim in a gothic simulation illuminated by sombre flashes of sardonic rhetoric.” Which is nice.
Secret Satan, 2019 translation edition
“We are both monarch and victim in a gothic simulation illuminated by sombre flashes of sardonic rhetoric.” Which is nice.
Secret Satan, 2019
From clean-lined architects to Dirty Helen Cromwell the potty-mouthed barkeep – let us join hands and make contact with the fabulous.
Secret Satan, 2019
From clean-lined architects to Dirty Helen Cromwell the potty-mouthed barkeep – let us join hands and make contact with the fabulous.
Strange Flowers guide to Vienna, part 1
… in which we scour the old town for old friends
19 books for 2019
Who needs this many books? You do. YOU need this many books.
Secret Satan, 2018
Your essential Christmas book list – it’s naughty, it’s nice. Mostly naughty if we’re honest.
Secret Satan, 2018
Your essential Christmas book list – it’s naughty, it’s nice. Mostly naughty if we’re honest.
Adrift
Ironfoot Jack, Umm Kulthum, Jack Parsons, Harry Crosby… it’s a Strange Flowers Film Festival!
Franziska zu Reventlow (1871-1918)
100 years since the death of the ‘bohemian countess’
Strange Flowers 