Anti-Editorial
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 …
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 …
It is more a question of taste than of truth how far back in time we may legitimately trace the origins of SF. Whatever the antiquity we assign it, by …