Robert Douglas-Fairhurst’s most recent book is Look Closer: How to Get More Out of Reading (Fern Press).
The painter’s enigmatic scene has inspired poems by Auden, William Carlos Williams and many others
The writer’s drawings are every bit as fastidious as his sentences – and full of the same preoccupations
Long out of print, the cards have been reissued by Taschen. But what of the artistic merits of their designs?
An ancient cow’s heart and a witches’ ladder are among the intriguing objects in this exploration of magical thinking
Julia Margaret Cameron's photographs are some of the most hauntingly original of the 19th century.