He stays, old beyond age. The powerful, the unforgiving. The merciless judge. The face with no eyes . The scrawny face. The long arched nose. The prominent chin of his
The almost homonymous Les Négresses Vertes, the French group, is somewhat a coincidence. Dark skin is nice to be painted in blue, or in green – as in this case.
The palm tree, an icon from Mario Schifano’s paintings and from the streets of LA. The red design sofa. All this is both trendy and cozy. The spray paint writing,
The beautiful widow has seduced the enemy’s commander Holophernes. He fell drunk and asleep. She beheaded him in his drunken dreams. It’s a story of blood, sex and vengeance. Here
A literary tribute to Milorad Pavic. An winter escapee from Stalinist Russia arrives in Riga where, walking on a desert and frozen street at night, he sees this notice in
The Erl King, by Michel Tournier. A most amazing novel by a most amazing French writer. A huge man mounted an immense black horse rides across Prussia, stealing youths from
The wolf is an icon. The wolf is a totemic animal and demigod. Many clans of warriors, ancient armies, Rome itself and their Dacian rivals, the Turks and the Mongols
Northeastern New Mexico. A land of magic and a colony of artists. An isolated house in the chaparral. As an old Spanish fortress. Sunset colors, warm weather, the fragrance of
Soldier, German-Baltic, an old family. Czarist. He was unruly, bloodthirsted, and magic. He had a personal vengeance to take against the Bosheviks: his young wife massacred in their residence in
