Elucidating Esbjerg

There are many social-media-savvy people who are choking on sanctimony and lacking in compassion, who can fluidly pontificate on Twitter about kindness but are unable to actually show kindness...

Well I grew up in the New Zealand of country pubs and sheep and macrocarpas; and beyond it, we were told, was a planet structured around the British Empire turning into the Commonwealth turning into... something else...

Through all those years of journal entries, Lucy Maud Montgomery was always intelligent, often funny and never boring. I wanted to know what she’d say next...

Carolyn Kizer, feminist poet and founding editor of Poetry Northwest, became the first Program Director for Literature at the National Endowment for the Arts in 1966...

If rebirth does actually happen, I will be reborn as an amoeba or a snail...

Before the swallow, before the daffodil, and not much later than the snowdrop, the common toad salutes the coming of spring after his own fashion...

Especially for antiquarian and other independent booksellers, there exists a tension between sharing knowledge and running a business...

Whether or not The Trespasser helped Woolf shape Night and Day, there may be glints of Lawrence’s novel in To the Lighthouse...

Sons and Lovers emerged with astonishing vividness, like an island from off which the mist has suddenly lifted...

The metaphor retains the paradoxical power to unveil the truth by veiling it...

The novel is an extremely flexible form. It can come out in countless shapes, include infinite content, and end up almost any length...

Robert Walser found a context, a context of beauty for the many voices that surfaced in his awareness...

In more than two dozen languages, the words for month and moon are the same...

The trajectory of literature is intertwined with and also strains against the career of God...

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations—such is a pleasure beyond compare...

The postcolonial school may have claimed Coetzee, yet his attempt at a satirical sort of self canonisation actively resists any and all approaches to his writing within a single framework...

Nothing prevents us from using uchrony to look to the future...

Dynamics and architecture: the very attributes required for making an Internet, a universe, an emergent God, a creation, certainly a poem...

Small-eyed Henry VIII, spread curiously flat on the rectangle, vast and gem-studded. Thomas More, Anne Boleyn, they’re all here...

I first arrived here from India three long decades ago late...