HE great men of the past whose names have given an adjective to the language are by that very fact most vulnerable to the reductive treatment. Everybody knows what "Machiavellian" means, and ...
Bruce Wayne, Don Draper, and Lisbeth Salander: Gloomy, rebellious, and oh-so-enigmatic, these characters hook us by the heartstrings despite—or perhaps because of—their darker nature. In the world of ...
Brooding, sensual, violent, intelligent, and single-minded. Edward Cullen. Han Solo. Killmonger. Lestat. What do all these characters have in common besides being heartthrobs? They share a common ...
Isn't It Byronic is a sharp, strange, and darkly funny solo show about the beautiful, brooding men of romantic literature - and what they accidentally taught one woman (?) about herself. Themself? She ...
SPARKENBROKE — Charles Morgan —Macmillan ($2.75). When Charles Morgan wrote The Fountain (1932) it was variously hailed as a big book, a pretentious imposture, a masterpiece, a phony. Sparkenbroke ...
Victorian physician John Polidori took the vampire out of the forests of eastern Europe, gave him an aristocratic lineage and placed him into the drawing rooms of Romantic-era England. His tale The ...
A young lord turned twenty-eight. He was mugged by brigands and died the next day. It’s a black cloud upon the English moor. It’s doom and gloom knocking at your front door. And isn’t it Byronic . . .
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