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We have always loved and we will continue to love. Oh, the beauty of human connection!

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Woman with a Cat - Gustave Courbet (detail)

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A Little Night Music (1956)

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Pierre Cardin Ad (L'Officiel 1977)

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Simon Leclerc

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Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

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Gillis Coignet (detail)

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Total eclipse of the Sun, July 1860, illustrated by astronomer Warren de la Rue.

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Chelsea Dingman, from "Psychogeography"

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reading in bed. painting by marta astrain.

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i wish it was more common to memorize and recite poetry. i wish it wasn’t pretentious. i think it’d be nice for most ppl to have a favorite poem they know off the top of their head and even normal to know a few

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Mia Goth photographed by Rachel Fleminger Hudson for Cultured Magazine, 2023

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egon schiele’s two women embracing (1918)

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― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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Lost Cities of the Ancient World

Lost Cities of the Ancient World by Philip ‘Maty’ Matyszak compiles the individual histories of cities across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia into one volume, linking cities thousands of years and kilometers apart with the simple fact that in some way or another, they are or once were, lost. Following on from his earlier book Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World (2020), Maty introduces and reacquaints his readers with cities that were abandoned, sunk, or destroyed many years ago, and he does so engagingly and excitingly. This book, aimed at general history enthusiasts, still includes pieces of fascinating history that those acquainted with the sites might not know. Despite being familiar with many of the sites explored in the book, I not only learned something new about many of them but was also introduced to various sites I had never heard of. Of particular fascination to me are the submerged cities of antiquity, lost to us beneath the waves and rising seas, which made learning about Thonis in Egypt one of the highlights of this book.

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