Trueloves Hide: Cast In Stone

Harvey Truelove is the jetsetting pervert whose heart, if not his cock and his tongue, is in the right place... Penelope Fledge is the witch with no sense of commitment, who once met God in a pub and promptly followed the very next man she met home to the middle of nowhere... Cade is the...

Hunger And Highlander: Living Forever In New York In The ’80’s

New York in the eighties was the place to be if you were French and couldn't die... In The Hunger, Catherine Deneuve is an immortal vampire, swanning around New York killing people and living in an absurdly architectured swank palace with antiques and exotic European booze, pulling young and beautiful female American scientists but ultimately...

Nothing To Envy by Barbara Demick

The young defector is lent a copy of George Orwell's 1984 and he is amazed at its insight: "How did he know?" That's one more layer to the tragedy, the rippling trauma of the country held in the jaws of a bizarre Stalinist, Confucian, peculiarly Korean personality cult that has somehow endured for more than...

Joni Mitchell: “Both Sides, Now”

"Bows and flows of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere I've looked at clouds that way But now they only block the sun They rain and snow on everyone So many things I would have done But clouds got in my way I've looked at clouds from both...

The mysteriously carnal Japanese client, brandishing a lacquered box that quivers with the sounds of the occult insect within... The onanistically grieving Duc, desperate that his blind valet doesn't allow his cats into the chamber to disturb his religious zeal before climax... The gold toothed black leather psychopath who won't trust a whore who takes...

The Mask Of Sanity: “Not As Single Spies But In Batallions…”

from Hervey Cleckley's "The Mask Of Sanity"... "It is not easy to convey this concept, that of a biologic organism outwardly intact, showing excellent peripheral functions, but centrally deficient or disabled in such a way that abilities, excellent at the only levels where we can formally test them, cannot be utilised consistently for sane purposes...