September 2021

Bishop’s persona is part she-moose, part bus; part warrior-fish, part oily vessel; part pastoral idyll, and part atomic bomb...

The soapwort gentian now. In an old pasture, now grown up to birches and other trees, followed the cow-paths to the old apple trees...

At the sites chosen for the groundnut scheme, tractors and bulldozers from military surplus stores in Egypt proved unable to tackle the hard ground and tough vegetation, so the planners turned to a novel solution: repurposing surplus Sherman M4A2 tanks...

The cool shadow of the fig-trees in the yards, with the whiff of that queer smell, heavy with romance, of wine-saturated oak and crumbling plaster; I know with a little stab of joy that this is Italy...

Wittgenstein tends to merge certainty and knowledge a little...

It is the duty of intellectuals and artists to reject enforced glee, to carve out a preserve for the life of the soul as best they can, and to call madness by its name...

Diaz was born in 1958, eight years after the official independence of the Philippines from the US was declared, and seven before Marcos ascended to the presidency...

Germany is shortly to hold its first ever federal election in which the sitting chancellor is not running...

In philosophical treatments of friendship, it can often be elevated to the highest form of human relationships, even if its perfect form is rare...

Korczak lived an extraordinary life through the worst of times. He was an educator and ran an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto...

When I worked in a second-hand bookshop the thing that chiefly struck me was the rarity of really bookish people...

The Misfits carries in itself the nature of an allegorical tale that throws itself deep into the thick of postmodern demands...

Everything which is impersonal in man is sacred, and nothing else...