MICHAEL RICHARDSON has published widely on surrealism, and is the general editor of The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism (Bloomsbury, 2019). Among the books he has authored or edited are Georges Bataille, The Absence of Myth (1991), George Bataille: Essential Writings (1994), Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and the Caribbean (1996), and Surrealism and Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2006).