The first time I learned about “Loab,” it sent shivers down my spine. A strange dead-eyed ghoul that began haunting an AI image generator last year, Loab reminded me of a fiend I’d been tracking for ...

The reputation of the Marquis de Sade, whose name has become a symbol of sexual cruelty, has in the 20th Century reached an extraordinary height. Exemplar of the aristocratic libertinage of late 18th ...

“At Home With the Marquis de Sade” is an ironic title for the life of a writer few of us will ever feel at home with, and it belies the fact that Sade, from an early age, was essentially homeless.