Theatre de L'Ange Fou

[machi1895]

落ちる

[mabellonghetti]

Isabelle Adjani photographed by Marianne Rosenstiehl, c.1986

[mournfulroses]

Ada Limón, from "Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry," originally published in April 2026

[theroyalgardens]

[danwhomightbetheman]

Nan Goldin’s ‘Kiki and Maggie in the Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, Mass. 1985’

i think about them every day

[littlehorrorshop]

Clara Bow in Poisoned Paradise (1924)

[ensalada-de-lengua-de-pajaritos]

[ange-fou]

New reads, February 2026

(poetry)

‘Blush / river / fox’ by Anna Nygren (February 2026, Milkweed Editions)

‘Bertha Comes Down’ by Megan Pattie (February 2026, Broken Sleep Books)

‘The Planets’ by Diane Ackerman (February 2026, Marginalian Editions) 

(fiction)

'Favorita’ by Michelle Steinbeck (translated from the German by Jen Calleja) (February 2026, Faber & Faber)

‘Queen’ by Birgitta Trotzig (translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel) (February 2026, Faber & Faber)

‘Little One: A Novel’ by Olivia Muenter (February 2026, Little Brown & Co)

‘The Disappearing Act’ by Maria Stepanova (translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale) (February 2026, New Directions)

‘Murder Bimbo’ by Rebecca Novack (February 2026, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster)

‘This Is Not About Us’ by Allegra Goodman (February 2026, The Dial Press)

‘Clutch: A Novel’ by Emily Nemens (February 2026, Tin House)

‘Superfan: A Novel’ by Jenny Tinghui Zhang (February 2026, Flatiron Books)

‘The Astral Library’ by Kate Quinn (February 2026, William Morrow)

(non-fiction)

‘Making the Cut: An Unorthodox Love Story’ by Max Olesker (February 2026, Penguin)

‘Traversal’ by Maria Popova (February 2026, Cannongate)

‘Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present and Future of the Self-Provisioning City’ by Kate Brown (February 2026, W.W. Norton & Co)

‘In Sickness and In Health: Love Stories from the Front Lines of America’s Caregiving Crisis’ by Laura Mauldin (February 2026, Ecco)

‘Frog: And Other Essays’ by Anne Fadiman (February 2026, Farrar Straus & Giroux)

‘One Bad Mother: In Praise of Psycho Housewives, Stage Parents, Momfluencers, and Other Women We Love to Hate’ by E.J. Dickson (February 2026, Simon & Schuster/Simon Element)

‘A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides’ by Gisele Pelicot (translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer and Ruth Diver) (February 2026, Penguin)

‘Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl: Essays’ by Mandy-Suzanne Wong (February 2026, Graywolf Press)

[summertimenoir]

Marlene Dietrich and her pet black cat in Dishonored (1931)

[littlehorrorshop]

Clara Bow in Poisoned Paradise (1924)

[lovethemoodroom]

James Baldwin at his typewriter

[littlehorrorshop]

Carmel Myers in Poisoned Paradise (1924)

[theoptia]

Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet

[vintage-tigre]

[lasfloresrotasblogdepoesia]

Unknown Artist, "Porte Veine", 1913.

[authoroftheaccident]

"It's what I should always have done—I shouldn't have become involved in cinema, that's for fools. Gardening is central because in gardening one is entering into another time into eternals and returns and cycles. Those are the ressurection cycles in my life."

—Derek Jarman, 1991

[gatabella]

Greta Garbo by Cecil Beaton, England, 1951