A literary and art magazine at the crossroads of Western letters and Yoruba artistic tradition. Belles Lettres, Essays, Yoruba Art, Modern Masters. 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z https://lagboheme.com/ Omololu Adeniran https://lagboheme.com/articles/belles-lettres/must-we-burn-sade 2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z Omololu Adeniran

The Marquis de Sade through the lens of Simone de Beauvoir's essay — philosophy, paradox, and the conscience of the conscienceless libertine. An essay by Omololu Adeniran for La Boheme Quarterly.

https://lagboheme.com/articles/belles-lettres/oscar-wilde-last-stand 2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z Omololu Adeniran

Oscar Wilde as unconscious dialectician — from the drawing rooms of London to the depths of Reading Gaol. An essay by Omololu Adeniran for La Boheme Quarterly.

https://lagboheme.com/articles/belles-lettres/victor-serge-desk-drawer 2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z Omololu Adeniran

Victor Serge (1890–1947) — anarchist, Bolshevik, dissident, exile, novelist. The revolutionary writer who survived Stalinism and exile, and whose manuscripts endured. By Omololu Adeniran.

https://lagboheme.com/articles/belles-lettres/william-hazlitt-familiar-style 2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z Omololu Adeniran

An essay on William Hazlitt, the greatest essayist of the Romantic era — radical journalist, literary critic, and master of the familiar style. By Omololu Adeniran.

https://lagboheme.com/articles/essays/ancient-masters 2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z Omololu Adeniran

An art-historical essay on ancient sculpture from Egypt, Greece, and Rome, tracing the evolution from afterlife emphasis to narrative drama to portrait realism. By Omololu Adeniran.

https://lagboheme.com/articles/essays/fine-sculptures 2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z Omololu Adeniran

An essay on the greatest sculptures of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, from Michelangelo's Moses to Bernini's Pluto and Proserpina, exploring how masters made stone and bronze come alive. By Omololu Adeniran.

https://lagboheme.com/articles/essays/marx-through-lenin 2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z Omololu Adeniran

An essay tracing socialism from Marx's early writings through the Communist Manifesto, the development of Marxist theory, and Lenin's contributions to revolutionary practice. By Omololu Adeniran.

https://lagboheme.com/articles/literary-excerpts/hazlitt-shakespeare-plays 2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z Omololu Adeniran

Selected excerpts from William Hazlitt's Characters of Shakespeare's Plays — his celebrated essays on Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, and the comedies. Selected by Omololu Adeniran.

https://lagboheme.com/articles/literary-excerpts/joyce-i-shall-not-serve 2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z Omololu Adeniran

The Christmas Dinner passage from James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — an 'unfortunate priest-ridden race.' Excerpts selected and introduced by Omololu Adeniran.

https://lagboheme.com/articles/literary-excerpts/nabokov-strong-opinions 2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z Omololu Adeniran

A curated collection of Vladimir Nabokov's most memorable observations from Strong Opinions, interviews, and essays. Selected and introduced by Omololu Adeniran.

https://lagboheme.com/articles/literary-excerpts/oscar-wilde-prescience 2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z Omololu Adeniran

Oscar Wilde's 1886 review of a Moroccan travel memoir contains an observation about the decline of Fez that remains strikingly relevant. A literary note by Omololu Adeniran.

https://lagboheme.com/articles/literary-excerpts/victor-serge-finest-lines 2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z Omololu Adeniran

A curated anthology of Victor Serge's most powerful prose passages from his novels and memoirs — Men in Prison, Birth of Our Power, Conquered City, The Case of Comrade Tulayev, and Memoirs of a Revolutionary. Selected by Omololu Adeniran.

https://lagboheme.com/articles/modern-masters/james-tissot 2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z Omololu Adeniran

James Tissot (1836-1902), the French painter who made his career in Victorian London — from Paris Commune exile to society portraitist to biblical visionary. By Omololu Adeniran.

https://lagboheme.com/articles/music-culture/best-album-covers 2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z Omololu Adeniran

An essay on the greatest jazz album cover designs — from Thelonious Monk to Miles Davis, where visual art and musical genius achieve a perfect marriage. By Omololu Adeniran for La Boheme Quarterly.

https://lagboheme.com/articles/music-culture/cafe-la-boheme 2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z Omololu Adeniran

On The Dreamers, Buñuel, and the bohemian rejection of bourgeois comfort — an editorial manifesto by Omololu Adeniran for La Boheme Quarterly.

https://lagboheme.com/articles/music-culture/critical-points 2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z Omololu Adeniran

A curated listening guide to the transcendent moments in music — the horn entries, vocal phrases, and rhythmic shifts that segregate the mediocre from the great. By Omololu Adeniran for La Boheme Quarterly.

https://lagboheme.com/articles/music-culture/i-still-love-mingus 2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z Omololu Adeniran

A love letter to Charles Mingus — bassist, composer, bandleader, pianist. On frenetic arrangements, sublime interpretations, and one of the greatest composers in jazz. By Omololu Adeniran for La Boheme Quarterly.

https://lagboheme.com/articles/yoruba-art/ife-bronze-terracotta 2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z Omololu Adeniran

The discovery of the Ife bronze and terracotta heads by Leo Frobenius in 1910-12 — naturalistic masterpieces of lost-wax casting dating to the 12th-14th century that astonished the world.

https://lagboheme.com/articles/yoruba-art/solomon-knots-interlace-patterns 2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z Omololu Adeniran

An artistic history of the Yoruba people — tracing the Solomon Knot interlace motif across Ife bronzes, Benin brass casting, and Owo ivory carving traditions.

https://lagboheme.com/articles/yoruba-art/yoruba-ivories 2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z Omololu Adeniran

Owo Art — lidded cups, masks, carvings. The virtuosity of Owo's ivory carvers, ceremonial swords, and the courtly regalia of the Olowo.

https://lagboheme.com/articles/yoruba-art/yoruba-textiles 2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z Omololu Adeniran

Ijebu Aso Olona, Aso Ofi, Adire, Beaded Crowns and Robes — the rich textile traditions of the Yoruba peoples, from narrow-strip loom weaving to indigo-dyed resist cloth and royal beaded regalia.

https://lagboheme.com/articles/yoruba-art/yoruba-woodworking 2026-01-15T00:00:00.000Z 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z Omololu Adeniran

Ifa divination boards, monumental doors, veranda posts, Epa and Gelede masks, Sango wands, Ibeji twin figures — the breadth and depth of Yoruba woodcarving traditions from Olowe of Ise to Lamidi Fakeye.