In a way, it goes back to the spirit of the early Edgy Enthusiast columns, which were numbered riffs on cultural obsessions. Playlists, even—dare I say it? —pre-blog blogging. Not really: but …. 1 Did you know that Jorn Barger, the guy generally known...

Think of this week's column as a play list for the overeducated, the media-saturated, the culturally jaded: things you may have missed, things you ought not miss, things you still can see and hear. Things "arts journalists" have not covered. Cultural news for those people...

Do you know about this: the whole black-hole/B-flat revelation? It’s pretty amazing, and it’s been out there for a while (it’s, you know, out there on another level, of course) and yet I don’t think it’s gotten the attention it deserves. Even some hard-core black-hole...

Do you know about this: the whole black-hole/B-flat revelation? It’s pretty amazing, and it’s been out there for a while (it’s, you know, out there on another level, of course) and yet I don’t think it’s gotten the attention it deserves. Even some hard-core black-hole...

In the following essay, Cousins examines the complexities of the characterization of Venus and Adonis.

In the following essay, Keach analyzes the ironic imagery and erotic motivations of character in Venus and Adonis, examining the poem's "insight into the turbulence and frustration of sexual love."

In the essay, below, Belsey studies Venus and Adonis as a "literary trompe-l'oeil, a text of and about desire" that "promises a definitive account of love" but withholds it.

The two types of violence in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis, though contrasting, are still both examples of violence. Venus' sexual pursuit of an unwilling Adonis is an example of the sexual violence that is the first half of the poem, and the gruesome, wild boar and its killing of Adonis is an example of the predatory violence that is the second half of the poem.