A friend testifies to the reality of one’s memories. A friend rescues the past from unreality…
Read MoreThe writing temperament comes to light as a condition of being. If there was a point, it was learning to read…
Read MoreIn 1991, Ukraine became an independent country and the world’s third largest nuclear power…
Read MoreThe satisfactions of meaning are preferable to transient pleasures or happiness. Meaning can last to the end of life…
Read MoreOxygen is insufficient. &O has recognised this reality…
Read MorePhilip was a great friend of mine. I loved him like a brother and miss him dearly. My collection of his work is not only a personal treasure…
Read MoreIn Vincent van Gogh’s fragile condition, the strong, enduring trees with their anguished limbs seemed to echo Christ’s suffering…
Read MoreHis passion, his source and core, never communicated by him to me, is beer, but it is more apt to call it beer snobbery…
Read MoreThe adverse impacts of restricting fossil fuel exports on the Russian economy would be overwhelming…
Read MoreFor all the efforts of the egalitarian left to deny it, the ability to get on, get by (or sometimes only stay put) remains a vital part of the average human experience…
Read MoreSofia, Dima, Vika, Andriy and Maryna left their hometown in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region after Russia took control of it in 2014…
Read MoreIn recent years, we’ve got in touch with independent presses and also managed to publish online. The costs have never been forbidding…
Read MoreHere is my account of the first day of Russia’s full-scale intervention in Ukraine…
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 MoreThe foundation of good fiction is character-creating, and nothing else…
Read MoreI well remember the first time I went to the Poetry Bookshop. It was in July, 1913…
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