sexual desire, mental illness and staunch political commentary have all made their way into the most recent batch of tributes. The 1988 British filmSalome’s Last Dance, directed by Ken Russell, is aggressively, unabashedly erotic and interweaves Wilde’s real-...
ruptures of both the biblical plots and figures, and the contemporary lives with which they intersect. Rather than trying to shoehorn biblical narratives and perspectives into unworldly consistency, Darnielle matches the incongruities of the Bible to his audience's incongruous experiences. Rather than...
He has a great many names, and is represented in various figures, sometimes having eleven faces and eight hands, the faces forming a pyramid ranged in four rows, each series being of a different complexion, as white, yellow, blue, red; sometimes he is represented as having one head and ...