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Wright traces humanity's impulse to distort reality through grotesque imagery and satirical exaggeration across centuries of art and literature, revealing how artists have weaponized the bizarre to critique society. By moving fluidly between medieval marginalia, Renaissance caricatures, and literary grotesquerie, he uncovers a hidden genealogy of visual protest. This is cultural history that explains why we still find transgressive humor so compelling.

A biography of Sir Richard Burton, the linguist, explorer and anthropologist. It covers his travels and writings, and aims to present him as a complex man rather than only a list of achievements.