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Marquis de Sade

July 2023

  • Dominatrix revisited … an image from Susan Meiselas’s series Pandora’s Box, taken in a BDSM club in New York in 1995, and on show in Sade: Freedom or Evil.

    ‘Not for the faint-hearted’: the gripping, horrifying show about the Marquis de Sade

    His name has become a byword for extreme sexual depravity. But was there more to the French nobleman who spent much of his life in jail? Our writer finds out at a new exhibition in Barcelona investigating his shocking work

July 2021

  • FILES-FRANCE-LITERATURE-SADE<br>(FILES) This file photo taken on April 2, 2014 at the Institut des Lettres et des Manuscrits de Paris shows the manuscript of “The 120 Days of Sodom” written by the Marquis de Sade while he was imprisoned at the Bastille in 1785, that was bought by French state for its National Library, Culture ministry announced on July 9, 2021 (Photo by Martin BUREAU / AFP) (Photo by MARTIN BUREAU/AFP via Getty Images)

    €4.55m Marquis de Sade manuscript acquired for French nation

    Original scroll of The 120 Days of Sodom, written while the writer was jailed in the Bastille, has been bought as an ‘emblem of artistic freedom’

May 2021

  • ‘Imagine what it would be like to inhabit a body without fear’.

    Everybody by Olivia Laing review – a book about freedom

    A moving and clear-eyed history of bodily freedoms that takes as its central character Wilhelm Reich, inventor of the orgone accumulator

February 2021

  • An employee displays the Marquis de Sade’s original rolled manuscript of The 120 Days of Sodom, before its auction in Paris in 2017.

    The 120 Days of Sodom: France seeks help to buy 'most impure tale ever written'

    Tax breaks announced for companies who pay for manuscript by the Marquis de Sade, valued at €4.5m

May 2020

  • Illustration by David Foldvari.

    Enter Baby Boris, or to give him his full name…

    Stewart Lee
    A beleaguered Britain bids a heartfelt hello to the perfect distraction from the handling of the coronavirus

February 2020

  • An illustration of the profile of an attractive woman with a man's hand on her shoulder

    Ne me touche pas… the shift in sex and power sweeping France

    Since #MeToo, France’s notoriously liberal attitudes to sex and sexual power are under the microscope as never before, says Natasha Lehrer

October 2019

  • Boccaccio’s Decameron 1487, By Sandro Botticelli, Museo del Prado Deutsch. Madrid<br>D98AJX Boccaccio’s Decameron 1487, By Sandro Botticelli, Museo del Prado Deutsch. Madrid

    Shortcuts
    Vintage filth: a guide to history’s rudest texts

    After the discovery of the racy fragments censored from the 13th century’s most popular poem, can any other ancient texts match up?

May 2019

  • Portrait of Kathy Acker, San Francisco, 1991.

    Kathy Acker review – a voyage to hell with the pirates of desire

    This Babylonian beast of a show crashes the New York avant garde of the 80s into today’s transgressive talents, with Acker as its visionary guiding spirit

February 2019

  • Detail from illustration in Harris’s Lists of Covent-Garden Ladies, held in the British Library ‘Private Case’ collection.

    British Library's collection of obscene writing goes online

    ‘Private Case’ of sexually explicit books dating back to 1658 ranges from the hijinks of Roger Pheuquewell to pioneering gay porn in the 19th century

June 2018

  • Isabelle Huppert

    Isabelle Huppert Reads Marquis de Sade review – philosophical pain, actorly pleasure

    Watching Huppert’s expert differentiation of the Marquis de Sade’s Justine and Juliette in solo recital makes you wish she would bring a conventional play to London

May 2018

  • Isabelle Huppert

    The Q&A
    Isabelle Huppert: ‘My guiltiest pleasure? Imagining myself as a sadistic, manipulative murderer’

    The actor on her fear of elevators, her childhood dream job and why she’d be willing to play golf with Donald Trump

February 2018

  • Isabella Rossellini and Isabelle Huppert

    Isabella Rossellini and Isabelle Huppert take one-woman shows to London

  • (FILES) In this file photo taken on September 7, 2015 Quebecer playwright, stage director, actor and filmmaker Robert Lepage poses in Paris. A few months ago, the famous Quebecer stage director Robert Lepage would never have thought to question himself while rehearsing his play on the Marquis de Sade with a nude actress. Such considerations had never crossed his mind before an international debate on sexual harassment which has occured following accusations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. / AFP PHOTO / Bertrand GUAYBERTRAND GUAY/AFP/Getty Images

    Nude scenes will never be the same after Weinstein, Robert Lepage says

January 2018

  • Catherine Deneuve, the French film star whose signature drew international attention to the open letter last week.

    After the #MeToo backlash, an insider’s guide to French feminism

    Catherine Deneuve joined 99 other prominent French women in a letter last week accusing the Hollywood anti-abuse campaign of censorship and intolerance. Agnès Poirier explains how the debate is viewed in Paris

December 2017

  • Manuscript of 120 Days of Sodom

    France saves Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom from auction

    Officials order that the manuscript of the 18th century erotic masterpiece by the Marquis de Sade be withdrawn from auction in Paris

August 2017

  • Kathy Acker.

    After Kathy Acker by Chris Kraus review – sex, art and a life of myths

    A biography by the author of I Love Dick of the countercultural star, stripper and S&M enthusiast, whose books remain radical and inimitable

June 2017

  • Anthony Burgess, pictured in Malta

    Anthony Burgess essay on pornography to be published

    The author’s lecture to a large audience of Catholic clergy in Malta is to be reprinted, along with a ‘punchy counterpoint’ response by Germaine Greer

February 2017

  • Carter, Angela, (birth name Angela Olive Stalker), 7.5.1940 - 16.2.1992, British author / writer, portrait, 1984,<br>B2HR54 Carter, Angela, (birth name Angela Olive Stalker), 7.5.1940 - 16.2.1992, British author / writer, portrait, 1984,

    Reading group
    Angela Carter webchat – your questions answered by biographer Edmund Gordon

  • Fairytales and fantasy … Angela Carter in 1981.

    Books blog
    Angela's influence: what we owe to Carter

November 2016

  • Flaubert’s travel diary.

    Blots and all: Gustave Flaubert's travel diary among rare books at historic sale

    Handwritten book full of crossings-out and comments reveals Madame Bovary author’s literary struggles
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