Library of Juniper

"We have to create ourselves as a work of art" ~ Michel Foucault

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They fuck you up, your Mum and Dad.

They may not mean to, but they do.

They give you all the faults they had and add some extra, just for you.

~ Phillip Larkin, This Be The Verse

Gym slips and hockey sticks: Jenny Diski on Philip Larkin's schoolgirl stories

Jenny Diski examines Larkin's newly-published juvenilia and questions whether such literary excavation is simply barrel-scraping.

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A dagger through your heart’s stone—on a slant
To reach your breast bone:
May your knees break, your hands shrivel
And your sword plunge in your guts to make you snivel.

~ Gwerful Merchain, 15th Century

On the Gleefully Indecent Poems of a Medieval Welsh Feminist Poet

I labored under the illusion that I was well-versed in literary works about the cunt, especially after writing my university dissertation on

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Lilith and Eve, 1963, by Yuri Klapouh

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‘A colossal achievement’ – Lost Girls by Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie

This is a collossal achievement, a work of considerable art and artifice, a book that demands to be read (deserves to have attention lavishe

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How Scandalous Were Masquerade Balls?

Podcast Episode · Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · 28 April · 45min

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Technologies of the Self

Podcast Episode · Arts & Ideas · 15 May · 57min

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James Joyce’s Love Letters to His “Dirty Little Fuckbird” by Nadja Spiegelman

February 2, 2018 –   On Nassau Street in Dublin, on June 10, 1904, twenty-two-year-old James Joyce saw (as clearly as he could see, since he

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Lovers

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EROTIC EPIGRAMS: Book 5: Epigram 171

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>Pelt me with fire and snow—and lightning if you like; haul me to the cliff’s edge and toss me into the

Nothing is sweeter than love; all good things come second: even honey I spat from my mouth. Nossis says this, and whomever Cypris has not kissed does not know what roses her flowers are.

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Nymphomaniacs and sex droughts: what I learned while studying women’s pleasure

In antiquity, women were considered the more sexual sex – hornier, more libidinous and lust-fuelled than men. Why did that perception change