From Name, which was published in April by Semiotext(e). Translated from the French by Lauren Elkin. Little bottles of neon-yellow liquid, the scent of pastis. Paregoric elixir, or tincture of…
The Birth of Venus, by Sandro Botticelli. Courtesy the Uffizi Gallery, Florence When telling a story, history’s imperfect record sometimes insists upon inconvenient gaps. This is the case with Botticelli’s…