marquis de sade

Since first hitting the shelves in 1955, J.P Donleavy's cult classic The Ginger Man has sold more than 40 million copies. The hedonistic tale of American student Sebastian Dangerfield in Dublin city during the 1940's, it was described by…

Dave Lordan is some cunt for writing this collection. And I mean that in the same way that Slippy-Sloppy would mean it. Slippy-Sloppy (a nickname for Stephen) was a bloke I used to work alongside in the Dunkin’ Donuts bakery in Cherry…

The notion of finding pleasure in another’s pain is, of course, far from a new development in the human psyche. Going back to ancient times, when the Assyrians boasted of mutilating their prisoners and murdering their children, there…