If Charles Baudelaire had lived a century-and-a-half later, I suspect he would have been a rock star. A tormented genius, like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, consumed by ...

This mythic figure is having a moment. But to adopt his point of view is to look for meaning around all the wrong corners. The flâneur emerged from the imagination of Charles Baudelaire. In his ...

This weekend in Chicago, a small theater troupe with a big resume will present all of the poems in Charles Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal" — sung by more than 50 performers from around the world.