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Saturday, February 23, 2013

The Reader by Federico Faruffini. I found this on the wonderful blog Reading and Art. "I awoke one morning with the usual perplexity o...

Thomas Cromwell: fixer, strategist, statesman - Scorpio. Hans Holbein King Henry VIII – charmer, playboy, wife-killer and the first head of ...

Just in case you've missed it, 50 Shades of Grey is a story about a young woman who meets an insanely wealthy, mysterious, tortured but...

Most self-help books have about three ideas in them which are padded out with a lot of white space and bullet points. But there are a few wh...

"The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another, his mother called him wild thing and Max said, "I...

A while ago I was asked to talk about astrology to some teenagers at the Museum of the History of Science here in Oxford. For a bit of fun,...

Munch's Madonna. He had Lilith in Cancer opposite the feminine Moon in her fall. "Oh, Mother, my mother!” cried the agonized girl, ...

Joan Crawford. picture by George Hurrell Lilith – baby-strangler, seducer, mistress of secret knowledge, outsider, feminist icon. In Jewish ...

This cover was designed by Len Deighton in the late 50s. If Jack Kerouac had not drunk himself to death at the age of 47, he would have turn...

Tiger Mom: me me me As an indulgent, child-worshipping Western mother, the Tiger Mom thing really gets up my nose. In case you missed it, (...