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What Is 2020?

November 10, 2020

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   It’s amazing to realize the joy that can arise simply from the removal of crushing despair. Nonetheless, this year continues to inexorably grind out reminders of its a...

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Ersatz Frenchness

November 03, 2020

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   Greg, the Man of No Man Walks Alone, once told me he couldn’t stand the fake “fallen noble” look of Arnys, which was once a niche shop on Paris’ Left Bank and is now a...

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Ordinary Creations

October 27, 2020

by Alexander Freeling.   There’s a longing at the moment—sometimes joking, sometimes deeply serious—for normality. But was there ever really normality, or do we only invent it by imagining away the...

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Doubling Up

October 20, 2020

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.  A fellow once joined a discussion board to post about a peculiar problem: he always wore out the elbows of his shirts first. I don’t know what he was doing (perhaps his...

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Sunglasses As An Extension of Character

October 13, 2020

by André Larnyoh.   Sunglasses do more for your face than just protect your eyes; they give you a new dimension. Rarely finding myself without a pair on hand, even in these chilly and grey days, if...

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An Imposter For Our Times

October 06, 2020

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   It never really goes away. Impostor syndrome. You were sure it would once you grew up.

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Marcello, Look!': La Dolce Vita at Sixty

September 29, 2020

by Chris Cotonou.  Dark suit, black shades, a cigarette, a Triumph sportscar, and the Eternal City in all of its baroque theatre. It has been sixty years since La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life) change...

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Five Against One

September 22, 2020

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans.   International tragedies have a way of making me sympathetic to the works of Hugo Jacomet. Perhaps his works somehow anticipate the direction the world moves. Recently...

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