If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every Shepherd’s tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move,
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
The Word was always there, and so, inside my body, I never felt alone. Now, postchurch, I turn to poems and songs in place of Bible verses…
Read MoreThe adverse impacts of restricting fossil fuel exports on the Russian economy would be overwhelming…
Read MoreThe idea that each of us has a singular voice, and that it places a stamp of authorship on our compositions, is of course corollary to the prohibition on plagiarism…
Read MoreShould we begin each morning like this? Yes, we should. Fat heads in the past, clear minds ahead…
Read MoreIt is the Donkey’s acceptance and internalisation of the judgement from on high that is so shockingly modern as it prefigures the mentality of victims in witch hunts, show trials, struggle sessions and other kinds of brain washing…
Read MoreMarcel Proust represents many things. Chief among these perhaps, especially for non-French readers, is quantity…
Read MoreI spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers…
Read MoreAll men are equal on their holidays: all are free to dream their castles without thought of expense, or skill of architect…
Read MoreBishop’s persona is part she-moose, part bus; part warrior-fish, part oily vessel; part pastoral idyll, and part atomic bomb…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreIt 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…
Read MoreThat thing? It’s just a monster living in Microsoft’s basement. And it’s wearing someone’s face…
Read MoreElizabeth Bishop explored Brazil extensively, making trips down the Amazon, traversing the tropical rainforest with Aldous Huxley…
Read MoreHumble dwellings like the Camargue huts invite us to tell a different kind of story about human-environment relationships, one less focused on human beings’ mastery of nature…
Read MoreIn the opinion of some of them the death penalty ought to be replaced everywhere by imprisonment for life. “I don’t agree with you,” said their host the banker…
Read MoreBefore writing off animal trials as irrational acts of an ignorant and superstitious past, consider some recent examples…
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