Trakl is a main character in Adorno’s important concept of the enigmatical. 

Una mosca peluda con alas índigo puede perfectamente ser el centro de atención de las niñas que usan vestido rojo.

Octave’s artistic process finally revealed! Repetition is the name of the game when each day resembles the next . . . But with any luck, Octave will soon be free to make more interesting pictures—let’s hope that someone will have the foresight to post his ridiculous bail!

Hilda Morley’s life and career read like a course in 20th century modernism.

Third installment of Anvil and Rose, the second by Inspector Wyatt.

Cualquiera puede solamente verse beneficiado por una buena traducción, porque una traducción actúa sobre y retroactivamente transforma el original.

a day like any other

“I grew up very much alone, and as far back as I recall I was frightened of anything sexual.”

Jon is ‘us.’ German is ‘nothing.’ They do it all.

Octave, our hero, is tragically locked away! Passing the time in constant agony . . . reading and painting?! Perhaps now the doctrine of Octavisme will have time to develop . . .

Érase una vez un muchacho llamado Jack…

The works included in Milano Chow’s new show at Bel Ami, “Park La Brea,” conceal themselves from strangers, murmuring discomfort and paranoia under their breath, only audible when confronted with the intention of listening.

The re-imagining of Christianity among its livelier adherents is as vital as any secular “poetics.”

Octave gives an interview from jail, finally getting the chance to express his vision for the future of art!

Love makes you a stranger to yourself, and the best any of us can hope for is someone good and kind willing to catch you from that existential fall.

Looking forward to something happening: Apparently not!

El pasado no desaparece en el presente sino que trona hacia el olvido junto con él. El presente es supuesto por el pasado, incluso si no es el futuro que el pasado tenía en mente.

Beautiful and mysterious in the extreme, Chernicoff’s poems are messages from the borderline offered as testimony to the thrilling precariousness of our spiritual adventure.

What will the public make of Octave and his work? With the artist in jail, Maurice goes on air to address the controversy.