The Pepys of sleep
Michel Leiris’s 1961 dream diary, Nights as Day, Days as Night
Pearls: Octave Mirbeau
The great provocateur of French letters, who died 100 years ago today
La vie en Palais Rose
The collection of Boni de Castellane and Anna Gould
Back to The Pleasure Garden
Happy birthday Hattie Jacques!
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…
Ta-ra Rasputin
100 years since feckless, frocked-up Felix Yusupov helped eliminate the man who held Russia’s imperial family under his spell
Ta-ra Rasputin
100 years since feckless, frocked-up Felix Yusupov helped eliminate the man who held Russia’s imperial family under his spell
“Suicide must be a vocation”
“You are all poets and I’m on the side of death.” It’s Demotivational Quote of the Day brought to you by everyone’s favourite Dadaist nihilist, Jacques Rigaut.
“Suicide must be a vocation”
“You are all poets and I’m on the side of death.” It’s Demotivational Quote of the Day brought to you by everyone’s favourite Dadaist nihilist, Jacques Rigaut.
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
All I’ve got is a s-s-s-single bed
Klaus Mann entertains gentlemen callers in a new Berlin exhibition which also addresses sister Erika
All I’ve got is a s-s-s-single bed
Klaus Mann entertains gentlemen callers in a new Berlin exhibition which also addresses sister Erika
Pearls: Erika Mann
“An investigation has been going on that could not help casting doubts upon my character…”
Pearls: Erika Mann
“An investigation has been going on that could not help casting doubts upon my character…”
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
Working the room
British poet David Gascoyne, born 100 years ago today, lets his dinner – and his date – go cold as he pursues Charles Henri Ford into the Montparnassian night…
Working the room
British poet David Gascoyne, born 100 years ago today, lets his dinner – and his date – go cold as he pursues Charles Henri Ford into the Montparnassian night…
Dress-down Friday: Bryher
A startlingly contemporary vision in between-the-wars film
How to Win against History
A chamber spectacular about the wondrous Henry Cyril Paget
Mysterious corners of shade
Occultist poet Berthe de Courrière, who died 100 years ago today
Phantoms of Surrealism
Sheila Legge, the faceless face of British Surrealism
Long dark night of the soul
“Je suis la Vierge immaculée!”
Moondog’s century
Happy hundredth birthday to the Viking of 6th Avenue
