Few events are as dramatic or as controversial as the spectacle of the bullfight. With a pedigree dating back to the blood-sports of ancient Rome, the deadly dance between bull and matador practiced today in Iberia and Latin America evokes awe in some and outrage in others. Beyond dispute, however, is the historical importance...
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In the 1990’s, British literature was rent asunder by the brutally honest voices of two Scottish writers: Alan Warner and Irvine Welsh. Warner’s Morvern Callar (1995) and Welsh’s Trainspotting (1993) mark a new direction in Anglo-Celtic fiction, a fresh branch on a literary tree that for too long was watered almost exclusively by English...
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Common is the overlap between the erudite and the erotic when it comes to fine art; rare, however, is the artist who can inhabit that Venn diagram with the aplomb of James Salter and Henry Miller. Both New York boys, both at various points ex-pats living off the degenerate succulence of France, these two...
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