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Wyndham Lewis was born on this day in 1882. A first-rate novelist, critic, and painter, he was a leading English exponent of fascist modernism. In honor of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this website:

• Kerry Bolton, “Wyndham Lewis” (French translation here)


• Jonathan Bowden, “Classical Modernism and the Art of the Radical Right“


• Jonathan Bowden, “Elitism, British Modernism, and Wyndham Lewis” (transcript)


• Jonathan Bowden, “Wyndham Lewis” (podcast)


• Jonathan Bowden, “Wyndham Lewis’ Tarr: An Exercise in Right-Wing Psychology” (Bulgarian translation here)


• Jonathan Bowden, “Wyndham Lewis’ The Apes of God” (Bulgarian translation here)


• Jonathan Bowden, “Wyndham Lewis’ Childermass: Black Metal, without the Music“


• Adrian Davies, “Culture and ‘Engagement’: French and English Perspectives“


• Alex Kurtagić, “Some Sort of Nietzschean“

Kerry Bolton’s essay and Bowden’s “Elitism, British Modernism, and Wyndham Lewis” are both excellent overviews of Wyndham Lewis’s life and work.

To learn more about Wyndham Lewis, visit the website of the Wyndham Lewis Society. Click here to see some of his paintings.