Amory Crane

Amory writes on Literature, Art, and wider cultural phenomena for Decadent Serpent.

16 articles

Man's Agency: A Review of 'Call Me Stratos'

13 October 2025

A Few Good Men: On the Importance of Critics

1 September 2025

Sketches From a Novelist's Notebook: On Reading, Writing, and How Novelists Get Their Effects

Bonfire of the Vacuities: On the Death of English Literature and the University

Creative writing

On Capri

Aestheticising Power: On Art and Elite Theory

The Threshold of Our Selves; Or, The Janus Face of Art

Blood on the Greyscale: A Review of ‘The Naked Spur’

Art in Our Time: Summing up the Art Deco Debate

Manners Maketh All

Poetic Conversationalist: Some Notes on Frank O'Hara

Scandal in Bohemia

Literature of Escape

Innovation, Where?

Reading in Ruins I

How We See Now: Memes as the Depiction of The New Digital World

3 February 2025