Category Archives: Books
Thedore Wratislaw: Fragments of a Life
D.J. Sheppard’s highly recommended biography of the elusive 1890s poet
Thedore Wratislaw: Fragments of a Life
D.J. Sheppard’s highly recommended biography of the elusive 1890s poet
The Surreal Century of Leonora Carrington
The belatedly recognised artist and writer, born 100 years ago today
The Surreal Century of Leonora Carrington
The belatedly recognised artist and writer, born 100 years ago today
The Pepys of sleep
Michel Leiris’s 1961 dream diary, Nights as Day, Days as Night
17-plus books for 2017
Dead poets, nude dancers, good bohemians, mystical Symbolists, jaded aristocrats, queer courtiers and blind men at play in a realm of dreams and voodoo
17-plus books for 2017
Dead poets, nude dancers, good bohemians, mystical Symbolists, jaded aristocrats, queer courtiers and blind men at play in a realm of dreams and voodoo
Late entries
A few book titles from late 2016 you may have missed…
Walking in a Weimar wonderland
Walking in Berlin, Franz Hessel’s classic non-fiction account of the city in the Weimar era, finally available in English
Walking in a Weimar wonderland
Walking in Berlin, Franz Hessel’s classic non-fiction account of the city in the Weimar era, finally available in English
A dandy in aspic
Monsieur de Bougrelon covers the waterfront in Jean Lorrain’s singular, intoxicating novella
A dandy in aspic
Monsieur de Bougrelon covers the waterfront in Jean Lorrain’s singular, intoxicating novella
Romaine Brooks: A Life
Cassandra Langer discusses her biography of the great 20th century portraitist
Romaine Brooks: A Life
Cassandra Langer discusses her biography of the great 20th century portraitist
15 books for 2015
Bricktop, Baron Corvo and Bertolt Brecht join a cast of…oh, about two dozen
Places: Crowley’s Berlin
The Great Beast witnesses the Weimar twilight
Pages: The Play of Hadrian VII
Frederick Rolfe and his pontifical delusions
AB is back again
The gamut of Anita Berber’s radical choreography in a 12-day programme
Enemy of the average
Gathering strange flowers from Lotusland to Berlin
Pages: Sheila
“The Australian ingenue who bewitched British society”
From the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica
Celebrating the dark lights of fiction
14 books for 2014
Books, books, books – dirty and otherwise
Dress-down Friday: Annemarie Schwarzenbach
“Best wishes, Fritz”
