
In Defense of Women, by Henry Louis Mencken
Written in 1918, a full two years before the federal emancipation of women, H.L. Mencken, a journalist and satirist from Baltimore, penned this passionate, funny, cynical study of gender relations.
Written in 1918, a full two years before the federal emancipation of women, H.L. Mencken, a journalist and satirist from Baltimore, penned this passionate, funny, cynical study of gender relations.
Blood and Oil in the Orient is the story of Lev Nussimbaum, a young Azerbaijani nobleman, and his mad flight across Asia to escape the Bolshevik terror sparked by the Russian Revolution. Full of picturesque descriptions of the different people he met and the stories he heard, Blood and Oil in the Orient is a kaleidoscope view of the old east…
Henry Louis Mencken, a lover of all things new and modern, did not hate modern women. “In Defense of Women” is exactly that, a defense of women against their many detractors. Where Mencken differs, however, is that he doesn’t establish his argument from a place of unreality. There are no ridiculous appeals to women’s innate goodness…
Whenever I find myself homesick I read poetry, and in particular, there is one poet that I always find myself returning to. Emily Pauline Johnson, also known as Tekahionwake, a Mohawk Princess who wrote several books in high Victorian style at the start of the 1900s…
Last year while living in Mexico City I had the opportunity to visit the Unión Nacional Sinarquista (UNS) headquarters in Mexico City and meet with several of their leaders to discuss ideology and the history of their movement.
Pierre Drieu la Rochelle’s suicide marked the end of an epoch in French publishing, and world politics more generally. While many in his class were able to deftly manouver the rapidly changing political and economic landscape of their time, Drieu la Rochelle’s decision to collaborate with the occupying regime lead to his untimely death.
F.T. Marinetti’s first novel, Mafarka the futurist, was initially published in Paris to broad critical acclaim. When it was later translated into Italian and published in Milan however, Marinetti was quickly brought before court and charged with obscenity and distributing pornography.
Through his tireless effort, Aldus would revolutionize the publishing industry and lay the necessary groundwork for the Renaissance, modern democracy, and the bourgeoisie revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries.
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