Patricia Cornwell's nonfiction attempt 1 to name serial killer Jack the Ripper reads more like fiction than fact. Cornwell has identified Walter Sickert, a well-known Victorian painter, as Jack the ...
Walter Sickert, "Ennui" (c. 1913–14, inscribed lower left "To Asselin/Sickert/1916"), oil on canvas (all images courtesy Piano Nobile, London) LONDON — As W.H. Auden reminds us, at the end of his ...