All Rhodes Lead to Historical Feud
History is not fixed. The point is, it can be re-judged for its faults. This assertion, and others like it,... View Article
History is not fixed. The point is, it can be re-judged for its faults. This assertion, and others like it,... View Article
Views of the Alhambra. I’m in Granada, Spain, taking in views of the Alhambra from my hotel room. The extra... View Article
The writer Thomas Mann died sixty years ago in Zurich. Since that time his reputation as a major figure in... View Article
If the latest portmanteau is to be taken seriously – Grexit, a combination of the words Greece and exit referring... View Article
How do we depict the past? One way is to travel along the byways of hindsight, to remember with knowing... View Article
I recently read an article by Lincoln Allison titled Are Novels a Waste of Life?. The question of the title... View Article
In Virginia Woolf’s experimental novel The Waves, the wistful Bernard reflects “I have lost friends, some by death […] others... View Article
If one abides by mythology, the islands of Japan were born of the spirits Izanagi and Izanami in a moment... View Article
One story that left an impression on me who was the tale of the mapmakers as told by Jorge Luis... View Article
In his recent film Bitter Lake about the recent history of Afghanistan, Adam Curtis tells us we all need stories... View Article
To serif or not to serif? The small projecting barbs on the ends of letters that indicate more than mere... View Article
I recently had the pleasure of visiting the New Walk Museum & Art Gallery in Leicester. Enjoying this very fine... View Article
Recently I’ve been thinking about what impels me to write the type of short stories I write….. so here are... View Article
What do we hear when a politician speaks? What do we expect to hear? Whatever we think about the political... View Article
Does it matter if an abstract painting is hung the wrong way up? This question is not as facetious as... View Article
Before the internet, you had to go much greater lengths to hunt things down. Libraries were held in higher regard... View Article
We spent the weekend in on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, there with some friends on what appears to... View Article
Anyone who is familiar with Voltaire’s satirical classic Candide will recall the calamitous, if not frankly pernicious, series of trials... View Article
In his 1938 book The Theatre and Its Double (Le Théâtre et son Double) , French dramatist and actor Antonin... View Article
There was a time when abstract painting was all the rage. Perhaps never quite de rigueur, but in a more... View Article