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On the other hand, Pan and the Goat was kept hidden for years. And in the last couple of years, a photography developer in the UK refused to print a woman's pictures of a painting of Priapus from Pompeii that she'd taken on a visit there. Their employer supported them on the grounds that it...

Porn is essentially working-class and erotica is middle and upper-class. You laugh? I'll explain a little further. The word 'pornography' is a very old one. It comes from the ancient Greek meaning, in essence, 'the writings of prostitutes'. Until the second half of the 19th century, it had no...

Indeed. And some of us remember the times before huge 'corporations' came to town and essentially knocked the small, independent booksellers into the pages of history. I visit a Borders occasionally. But I don't expect it to be anything other than a large repository of books, with the...

Merci bowcoop, Thomas. :)

The rather sleepy village of Midwich finds itself becoming even sleepier when all those in it – and nearby, within a precise circular boundary – fall suddenly into a state of unconciousness that lasts for over 24 hours. In that time, aerial reconnaissance and photographs reveal not only that...

The 25th Discworld novel sees the arrival of moveable type to Ankh-Morpork, inspiring William de Worde to found the Discworld's first newspaper, with Sacarissa Cripslock as his fellow reporter and Otto Chriek, a vampire who has forsworn human blood, as iconographer (photographer) and the press...

Were you in Chicago last night? Did you go to the rally?

Today I am happy because of the US election result.

:flowers:

Historian Simon Schama on Dubya's legacy.

Quite by accident – as these things are wont to happen – British secret agent James Bond, having concluded one mission, finds himself caught up helping an old acquaintance who is being cheated at canasta by the mysterious Auric Goldfinger. Later, he is sent to investigate the same...

Proof of just what graphic novels can achieve – as is the chilling V for Vendetta, which is also from Alan Moore.

Boom boom! Interesting question, Thomas. I shall give it some thought and attempt to frame a response.

My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a serious but struggling literary magazine, is persuaded to visit Kuala Lumpur with a famous poet and old family friend, John Slater, half in hope of finding out the truth about her mother’s death, for which she has...

This gave me my first inkling of the power of romanticism. Ballade von den Seeräubern (Ballad of the Pirates) Frantic with brandy from their plunder Drenched in the blackness of the gale Splintered by frost and stunned by thunder Hemmed in the crows-nest, ghostly pale Scorched by the sun...

My pleasure, Dogmatix. :flowers:

I'm glad that you enjoyed it (in the end), Wells83. Thanks Peder. And that sounds like an interesting comparison. I'll have to get a copy of Orlando. God, me reading list is so long these days and seems to grow expotentially on a regular basis! :lol:

Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson When The Dog Woman finds a tiny child abandoned in the Thames mud in 17th century London, she adopts him and names him Jordan to always remember his watery origins. And in the coming years, giantess and boy play their parts in history, from the English...

Fair enough.

Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille, translated by Joachim Neugroschel George Bataille's Story of the Eye is a short piece from 1928, which details the adventures of the male narrator and his two female accomplices, Simone and Marcelle, from their early sexual explorations to a murderous...