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Joe Taylor’s the ringleader of the playful indie rock band Kid Scientist, a group offering up their own take on Valentine’s Day with a newly released video for the song “The Ballad of Leopold von ...

THE FIRST MASOCHIST by James Cleugh. 220 pages. Stem & Day. $6.95. History has been cruel to Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. In his day—the latter half of the 19th century—he was an enormously popular ...

The 18 stories in this provocative collection from von Sacher-Masoch (1836–1895) are all united thematically with his most famous work, Venus in Furs, in their depiction of men who are dominated by ...

The writing of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch impacted the world, but in his birthplace of Lviv, in western Ukraine, his controversial legacy has not been officially recognized. An unwitting tourist who ...

The cruelty of women! For Severin—the endlessly needy anti-hero of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s short, intense erotic novel, “Venus in Furs,” published in 1870—there is no love without denial. We first ...

Roman Polanski’s adaptation of David Ives’s play “Venus in Fur” — itself a sort of meta-adaptation of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s 1870 short novella (whose title is usually translated as “Venus in ...

He wasn't the first person in history to enjoy being whipped and humiliated, but Leopold von Sacher-Masoch was so committed to his kink that he's lent his name to every masochist since. The Austrian ...

A waitress whips a client on June 7 in the Masoch Cafe dedicated to writer and original freak Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch who was born in Lviv in 1836. Euro 2012 host city Lviv also happens to be ...