“… If a particular kind of reddish brown, crêpe wavy hair came in (his studio), he was away in a moment struggling for an introduction to the owner of said head of hair. He is not as mad as a March hare, but hair-mad,” Elizabeth Gaskell once wrote of the […]
Hardik Yadav
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Oscar Wilde’s Salomé is a Christian nightmare. The story goes: King of Judea, King Herod, requests an adult dance from step-daughter Salomé; driven with lust for and revenge with, Salomé demands prophet John the Baptist’s severed head as her reward. Wilde wrote the play in French in Paris in 1893. Salomé came […]
It wasn’t until the third time I heard my name being called out at this year’s New York Antiquarian Book Fair that I headed to the next booth. I had no plans of departing from the booth I was in, Jonkers Rare Books; I wanted to take my time, make […]
