The Decadent, Dangerous Mr. Wilde
Portrait of Oscar Wilde (1882), by Napoleon Sarony
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If we were in Paris (we really should be in Paris!), I...
“An Orgy of Candy Gluttony”
A Cup of Chocolate (1844), by Charles Beranger
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At nine o’clock the next morning his servant came in with a...
Fairy Tales and Decadence
BY SARA CLETO AND BRITTANY WARMAN
Illustration: The Nightingale from Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (1911), by Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban
Despite their reputation for...
Aubrey Beardsley and the Weight of Decadence
The Peacock Skirt (1893), by Aubrey Beardsley
If you’re anything like me, you might have increased in mass over the past eighteen months. While the...
The Portals of Tartae Saga by Marcia Soligo
We wanted to tell you about Brazilian authoress Marcia Soligo's stunning The Portals of Tartae saga. First is The Land with the Two Moons, which was released...
Falling Through Time
This collection of poetry is about time and consciousness. In one way, time is merely a human construct that does not exist except as...
Q&A With Sharon Lynn Fisher, Author of The Warrior Poet
We wanted to tell you about this new tome in Sharon Lynn Fisher's The Faery Rehistory Series, The Warrior Poet, which stars our one true love W.B....
Gargantuan Appetites
Illustration by Gustave Dore. Stefano Bianchetti / Bridgeman Images.
A pie as big as a table, stuffed wit h everything edible known at the time....
An Interview with Veronica Varlow
All images from Bohemian Magick by Veronica Varlow. Published by Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers; © 2021 by Veronica Varlow. Photography by...
The Other Side of Abundance
The most famous prayer to the greatest goddess of abundance the world has ever known is the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. This prayer-hymn, which...