The mask dancers
Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt: fanatical creativity, wild performances and violent death in Weimar Germany
The mask dancers
Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt: fanatical creativity, wild performances and violent death in Weimar Germany
Secret Satan, 2023
Panto dames, UFO guides, between-the-wars bohos, honorary Inuit, utopian assassins, extraordinary aesthetes and the sandwich man of the beyond – it’s our annual book round-up!
Secret Satan, 2023
Panto dames, UFO guides, between-the-wars bohos, honorary Inuit, utopian assassins, extraordinary aesthetes and the sandwich man of the beyond – it’s our annual book round-up!
Places: Villa Stuck
To Munich for the fin-de-siècle temple of artist Franz (von) Stuck, complete with an altar to sin
Places: Villa Stuck
To Munich for the fin-de-siècle temple of artist Franz (von) Stuck, complete with an altar to sin
Doubles: Marie Corelli
A prolific author (and champion figure skater) takes on “perhaps the most accomplished liar in literature”.
Doubles: Marie Corelli
A prolific author (and champion figure skater) takes on “perhaps the most accomplished liar in literature”.
Valeska unveiled
A revolutionary production of Wilde’s Salomé staged by Valeska Gert in Berlin 100 years ago today
Valeska unveiled
A revolutionary production of Wilde’s Salomé staged by Valeska Gert in Berlin 100 years ago today
The bitter tears of Empress Elisabeth
Our Lady of Sorrows riding side-saddle through a vale of tears, or a morbid, capricious, drug-addicted, tattooed narcissist? Or both?
The bitter tears of Empress Elisabeth
Our Lady of Sorrows riding side-saddle through a vale of tears, or a morbid, capricious, drug-addicted, tattooed narcissist? Or both?
Secret Satan, 2022
You know what to expect by now, surely? Well, expect even more of it: this is our biggest year-end book selection yet.
The Battle of Vienna
Anita Berber and Sebastian Droste bring their infernal cabaret to a temple of high culture; trouble ensues
The Battle of Vienna
Anita Berber and Sebastian Droste bring their infernal cabaret to a temple of high culture; trouble ensues
The courting of Caresse Crosby
War-shattered nihilist poet Harry Crosby marries Polly Peabody (later Caresse Crosby), inventor of the bra, 100 years ago today.
The courting of Caresse Crosby
War-shattered nihilist poet Harry Crosby marries Polly Peabody (later Caresse Crosby), inventor of the bra, 100 years ago today.
Three Prose Works
A selection of vital and biographically charged pre-World War One fiction from the great Else Lasker-Schüler
Three Prose Works
A selection of vital and biographically charged pre-World War One fiction from the great Else Lasker-Schüler
Rosa Bonheur in 22 images
Born 200 years ago today, Rosa Bonheur would go on to become the most successful woman artist of the 19th century.
Rosa Bonheur in 22 images
Born 200 years ago today, Rosa Bonheur would go on to become the most successful woman artist of the 19th century.
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?
Merely real
Count Robert de Montesquiou, poet, dandy, aesthete, on the 100th anniversary of his death
Merely real
Count Robert de Montesquiou, poet, dandy, aesthete, on the 100th anniversary of his death
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.
Lights in the darkness
The 1966 short film by Marie Menken, who died 50 years ago today.
Strange Flowers 
