Yoruba Art
Solomon Knots, Interlace Patterns & the Corpus of Yoruba Art
An artistic history of the Yoruba People — tracing the infinity motif from Ife bronzes through Benin plaques to contemporary Nigeria.
Issue 1
Featured Articles
Belles Lettres
Oscar Wilde’s Last Stand
Triumphs, trials, tales — from the heights of London society to the depths of Reading Gaol and the luminous prose of De Profundis.
Essays
Marx Through Lenin
A history of socialism — men are not born Marxists. From the Communist Manifesto to the October Revolution.
Literary Excerpts
“I Shall Not Serve” — Joyce & Nigerian Freedom
The Christmas Dinner passage from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — an “unfortunate priest-ridden race.”
Yoruba Art
The Ife Bronze & Terracotta Heads
What Frobenius saw — the extraordinary naturalistic sculptures that challenged European assumptions about African art.
Belles Lettres
William Hazlitt’s Familiar Style
The finest prose writer of his age — Hazlitt’s radical journalism, literary criticism, and the art of the familiar essay.
Belles Lettres
Must We Burn Sade?
Simone de Beauvoir and the paradox of the Divine Marquis — depravity, conscience, and the ironies of revolutionary moderation.
Essays
Fine Sculptures
The greatest of all the arts — Michelangelo, Bernini, Verrocchio, and the liberation of form from stone.
