Howard Chua-Eoan is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion covering culture and business. He previously served as Bloomberg Opinion's international editor and is a former news director at Time magazine. In ...
A new book by Joel Warner traces the fate of the parchment on which the infamous author wrote “120 Days of Sodom,” a trail involving scholars, aristocrats and thieves — and lots of money. By Kevin ...
Two hundred and thirty-one years ago this month, King Louis XVI of France lost his head. His execution by guillotine was a precursor of the Reign of Terror, a 10-month period from 1793 to 1794 when ...
Queen Mary University of London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. In 1813, a year before he died, the Marquis de Sade wrote his last published book, The Marquise de Ganges. The ...
Alberto Giacometti, “Sketches of a Woman and Man Wielding a Sword” (c. 1951), pencil on a notebook page, 29.2 x 47.2 cm; © Succession Alberto Giacometti ...
THE ELEVATION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE to the dignity of a great moral philosopher is something fairly new; and it still seems paradoxical. To the average reader of his novels the philosophical passages ...
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