https://leithstjohn.com/home daily 1.0 2026-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57784835cd0f68715c5d5465/1530905521795-NG4E9JSGFMO228FWKVWI/big-background.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57784835cd0f68715c5d5465/4b5eeba7-d1f9-446c-9dcc-3d6d1bc668f4/IMG_5632+%281%29.jpg Home Leith and husband, Les. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57784835cd0f68715c5d5465/c6990800-6f06-4b02-a403-bbb956672d89/sunday-choi-RpXMySRW0AE-unsplash.jpg Home Photo by sunday Choi on Unsplash https://leithstjohn.com/about daily 0.75 2025-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57784835cd0f68715c5d5465/1531775254335-9OU6B91IK2WB78MN0BSC/leithisjewish.jpg About Leith and Moshe prepare to make tracks. https://leithstjohn.com/contact daily 0.75 2024-12-01 https://leithstjohn.com/faq daily 0.75 2024-12-01 https://leithstjohn.com/kudos daily 0.75 2023-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57784835cd0f68715c5d5465/1531749714679-4BIMISFOZ9SR8AYUQNXI/incredible_tranny.jpg Kudos Fan art by Kasey Ozmen, based on a Riftgirl video. https://leithstjohn.com/essays daily 0.75 2026-01-02 https://leithstjohn.com/monster daily 0.75 2024-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57784835cd0f68715c5d5465/1533076559855-ZWIQ6QUXNLZWPMQ9OTO0/mary-shelley.jpg Monster Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley by Richard Rothwell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57784835cd0f68715c5d5465/1531172996971-U9U5FSBIVI096N5I8OMI/the-bride.jpg Monster The pivotal scene when bride and groom meet, from Universal Pictures' The Bride of Frankenstein. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57784835cd0f68715c5d5465/1531172913003-TO5GGPA2XIWR57DMAOWC/fnf-dance.gif Monster Just a sweet transvestite... Tim Curry as Dr. Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57784835cd0f68715c5d5465/1531172816975-96CUS6YPGVQXNH933E1V/splice.jpg Monster Elsa confronts her creator in Splice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57784835cd0f68715c5d5465/1531180171207-F5MNM18P9RQW5TDSF9Y0/srs-thailand.jpg Monster Post-surgery, all systems go! https://leithstjohn.com/flaccid-venus daily 0.75 2023-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57784835cd0f68715c5d5465/1531182251570-EJHLEM7YFNOFHV4485QC/fig-1-birth-of-venus.png Flaccid Venus Fig. 1. Cabanel, Alexandre. The Birth of Venus. 1863, Musée d’Orsay, Paris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57784835cd0f68715c5d5465/1531182296904-3YKNXY73EC7ULQPLGBU5/fig-2-the-birth-of-venus.png Flaccid Venus Fig. 2. Botticelli, Sandro. The birth of Venus. 1483-85, Uffizi Gallery, Firenze. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57784835cd0f68715c5d5465/1531182345984-DI96ZYUL9NRFFTZZLABH/fig-3-sleeping-venus.png Flaccid Venus Fig. 3. Giorgione. Sleeping Venus. 1508-10, Old Masters Picture Gallery, Dresden State Art Museums. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57784835cd0f68715c5d5465/1531182388504-3RM3XUD9L3YVPTKI6OT9/fig-4-olympia.png Flaccid Venus Fig. 4. Manet, Édouard. Olympia. 1863, Musée d’Orsay, Paris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57784835cd0f68715c5d5465/1531182429664-5YF3WCGCBNGRLDADLHL1/fig-5-venus-of-urbino.png Flaccid Venus Fig. 5. Vecelli, Tiziano (Titian). Venus of Urbino. 1538, Uffizi Gallery, Firenze. https://leithstjohn.com/the-death-of-he daily 0.75 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57784835cd0f68715c5d5465/1533071702810-FOT4OVCWO41FHQIGBNTZ/the-death-of-he.png The Death of He https://leithstjohn.com/breakfast-with-gloria daily 0.75 2025-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57784835cd0f68715c5d5465/1533050496485-EKK3KHPVV7HQC2O3YXJA/peter-lewicki-614619-unsplash.jpg Breakfast with Gloria Photo by Peter Lewicki on Unsplash https://leithstjohn.com/liar-liar-pants-on-fire daily 0.75 2023-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57784835cd0f68715c5d5465/1547826187815-3AKJP586CXKFS80AKPIY/fiction-nonfiction.jpg Liar Liar Pants on Fire https://leithstjohn.com/translation daily 0.75 2025-01-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57784835cd0f68715c5d5465/ea3fe57f-3e6b-4529-9620-a9230f584312/translation-books.jpeg Translation Cartoonist Tom Gauld on X: "'How do novels get translated' (my cartoon for Saturday's @guardianreview): https://x.com/tomgauld/status/445487412966203392