Have you ever had to crop your ex out of a photograph? Well, how about having to ask your mate to erase them from a 20-foot oil painting? Duval was a French actress and courtesan, whose had a ...

In a small garret room on the Isle Saint Louis in Paris, Charles Baudelaire sits and writes. He has a fuming pipe in his mouth, a book propped against his table, and there is a gleaming white goose ...

Much like the brilliant book series it's based on, Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events certainly lives up to its name — it's a seriously hard-knock life for orphans Violet, Klaus, and Sunny ...

PARIS — On the 150th anniversary of Charles Baudelaire’s death from a syphilis-induced cerebral hemorrhage, the flâneur, poète maudit (cursed poet) of ennui, translator of Edgar Allan Poe, and art ...

Around, let’s say, 1885 the young French poet Jules Laforgue was living in Berlin and scribbling observations in his notebooks. He was reading Charles Baudelaire’s notorious book of poetry, Les Fleurs ...

A new dual-language translation of Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil offers English readers the best way of appreciating the poet who helped invent modernity. Review of The Flowers of Evil: The ...

Lemony Snicket is more than just a quirky, dry-witted narrator in A Series of Unfortunate Events, he’s a character with a vested interest in telling the tale of the Baudelaire Orphans: Klaus, Violet, ...

“To translate successfully an imperfect series of notes and jottings like the Journaux Intimes is a more difficult task than the whole of Baudelaire’s formal prose,” T.S. Eliot wrote in his ...

If Charles Baudelaire had lived a century-and-a-half later, I suspect he would have been a rock star. A tormented genius, like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, consumed by the ...

A privileged, arrogant poet who produced only one collection, Baudelaire has had huge influence in many spheres – and it continues 150 years after his death Pioneer poète maudit Drug-addicted, ...

But then, about midway through the Old Testament, David brings the Ark of the Covenant out of the country camp of Shiloh and into Jerusalem — and suddenly, we get the likes of Isaiah saying the city ...