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How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Marquis?
Interpretating de Sade in the age of ruin. WILLIAM BURNS on why the ‘banned’ book 120 Days of Sodom is more relevant than ever.
William Burns
16th July 2025
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Interpretating de Sade in the age of ruin. WILLIAM BURNS on why the ‘banned’ book 120 Days of Sodom is more relevant than ever.
On this day in 1974 a US President resigned from office, but Nixon as Leatherface — a villainous, exiled figure — still haunts the country.
JENNIFER WALLIS explores sex dolls, sex robots, and the myth of self in the age of A.I.
JOHN SINCLAIR passed away recently, activist, poet, manager of MC5, and immortalised in a song by John Lennon. DAVID KEREKES remembers buying lunch together.
All good things in life are sweet, many of them come from Vienna, and so does Pez. Revisiting the collectable candy in light of a ban.
H E Sawyer on the perils of wreck diving, mega dark tourism, and the ticking time bomb that was the tragedy of the Titan.
Shot-on-video horror was once considered a malignant outgrowth of respectable cinematic creation. But what does that mean today?
Among his many predictions, Criswell often returned to one particular forecast: womankind’s domination of the world and even outer space, led by Mae West.
Ed Canfield talks about the Zodiac Club and the strange time he made brief psychic contact with Criswell, self-proclaimed 20th century Nostradamus.
Read the forbidden predictions of the Amazing Criswell, king of the pop celebrity psychics, noted for his bizarre predictions and Ed Wood films!
Power Snatched artwork by L Jamal Walton
Power Snatched artwork by L Jamal Walton
