Alexandra Masters

The night has a thousand eyes

Not everyone has found comfort in the light. Keats mourned a lost rural idyll of darkness, and for Van Gogh starry nights were richly coloured

issue 05 January 2019

  • Darkness: A Cultural History

    Nina Edwards

    Reaktion Books, pp. 288

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