Author Archive
April 25, 2025How could he be other than a figure of fascination? Alexandre Kojève, born Alexandre Kojevnikoff to a wealthy merchant family in Moscow in 1902, glares out of most of his...
March 21, 2025I first learned of Sophie Madeline Dess’s work when a friend sent me her story “Unfathomably Deep,” then just published in The Drift. It was sent without comment,...
March 14, 2025Did it break the spell? Did rewatching Terry Gilliam’s time travel film 12 Monkeys release the hold it has had on me these past months, haunting my thoughts and...
March 7, 2025The work of the Irish novelist John Banville has long combined high aestheticism, fascination with vagaries of subjectivity, and a strong streak of pulp. “This thing of...
January 27, 2025Balzac published The Physiology of the Employee in 1841, to wide amusement. This was the year before he unveiled the preface to his Comédie Humaine, at once...- January 15, 2025W. B. Yeats’s association with the English designer, poet, and socialist William Morris lasted from 1887 to 1890, during which time the young Irish poet attended Sunday...
