Winter 2022
The masthead art is again by Meryl Gross, who just will not quit, no matter how much we beg her. But beggars are not losers, this time.
The masthead art is again by Meryl Gross, who just will not quit, no matter how much we beg her. But beggars are not losers, this time.
This issue’s masthead image is again from Meryl Gross, # 6 from her Jersey Shore series. It sure is Halloweeny.
On riper reflection, it became clear to us that issuing one’s opinions in an editorial is simply a way of crowing from the top of one’s dung-heap: an understandable but …
Beginning our second year of publication, with our program defined and refined in practice, we take this opportunity to express it explicitly. The name of this journal, 96th of October, …
The original of the image featured on the masthead is nearly 15 feet wide! Go here to see a high resolution version of Vrubel’s masterpiece, one of his many hallucinatory …
The masthead art is “The Gust of Wind” by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (30 September 1865 – 24 September 1953) a Jewish Symbolist painter born in Algiers, French Algeria, whose began his …
Charles Conder, an Australian impressionist, achieved something memorable in this 1899 depiction of hot dry summer on the beach. A year later he had left Australia for Europe, never to …
The Decadence never died. It simply continued, as the name would suggest, to decay. Now, more than a century after this movement ceased moving, it is certainly safe, and may …
Not a steroid. Not a drink with a parasol in it, which, depending on pronunciation and reading skills, you may have supposed. What became of all the Polynesian restaurants, anyway? …
As will have become apparent to mathematical minds, an October 96 days long would end on Christmas. But why stop there? Isn’t Halloween the only holiday we really need? It’s …