Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom has been described by film critics as ‘essential to have seen but impossible to watch’.

In theology, being condemned to perdition may sound a lot like going to hell, but it’s much worse than spending eternity amid fire and brimstone. Those who believe in the survival of the soul after ...

Howard Chua-Eoan is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion covering culture and business. He previously served as Bloomberg Opinion's international editor and is a former news director at Time magazine. In ...

The ensemble cast of “Marat/Sade” has the unique responsibility of playing characters that are playing characters themselves, from before audiences are seated until after they leave. (Craig Schwartz / ...

Social constructs and questions of control are preoccupations the late British writer Angela Carter returns to time and time again. This is especially true of the inflammatory piece of feminist ...

Two hundred and thirty-one years ago this month, King Louis XVI of France lost his head. His execution by guillotine was a precursor of the Reign of Terror, a 10-month period from 1793 to 1794 when ...

Incest: Sexual intercourse between people who are too closely related to marry (as between brother and sister or father and daughter). It was sometime in May this year when I was strolling through the ...

More than two centuries after his death the works of the Marquis de Sade can still shock. This is itself somewhat surprising since our culture is saturated by sex and violence and the crimes of ...

KOCHI: News can be unsettling at times. A recent investigation by the BBC has left me disturbed, helpless and, in a way, guilty, all the way to my innards. “Global network of sadistic monkey torture ...

Infamous as the progenitor of the concept of sadism, the Marquis de Sade had highly specific tastes even in matters of food, and letters he wrote to his wife from prison include detailed instructions ...