Short Works | Benjamin De Casseres

The Two Tolstoys

By Benjamin De Casseres THE world will remember two Count Tolstoys. One was a great artist; he died many years […]

By Benjamin De Casseres “What will other people think?” is the most cowardly phrase in use in society. Only weak

BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES There is a fourth dimension of thought. There are rare moments in life when the latencies

By Benjamin Decasseres CHARACTER is attitude. How do you look at a thing? How do you feel toward a thing?

A Tribute to the Recently Deceased Parisian and Neo-Pagan. Written for The New York Times Saturday Review of Books by

BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES ILLUSTRATED WITH CARICATURES BY MAX BEERBOHM While the field of caricature has always interested and amused,

New York Times Saturday Review of Books: Has any one who has ever written held together within himself so many

The encore fiend, with his huge maulers and silly giggle, his bubbling, thumping, ear-splitting appreciation of everything that assails his

BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES. The artist! he garners the world in a dream, and lo! the dream is more real