Dec 13, 2025 | Essays, Non-Fiction |
Stop Saying That the Earth Is Doomed You may be doomed, I may be doomed, the earth not so much. And anyway, do you have any idea how offensive that is to the gods? To any amount of offended magics? Especially to your children? To the perpetual and ongoing miraculous?...
Nov 22, 2025 | Essays, Non-Fiction, Travel |
Ynys Enlli was among the many remote places of the west and north-west coasts of Britain and Ireland to be settled between around 500 and 1000 AD. During those centuries, an extraordinary migration occurred. Monks, anchorites, solitaries, and other devout itinerants...
Oct 18, 2025 | Essays, Non-Fiction |
One aim of Sapphire And Steel was to transpose the ghost stories out of the Victorian context into contemporary places, the still inhabited or the recently abandoned. In the final assignment, Sapphire and Steel arrive at a small service station. Corporate logos –...
Aug 30, 2025 | Essays, Non-Fiction |
Let’s take a second to consider what we associate with the word practical. If we look for its etymology, we quickly run into notions like this: Practical: from the Greek practikos via Latin to the French practique and finally to English. Practical is to move from...
Aug 9, 2025 | Essays, Non-Fiction |
A Report On The Banality Of Evil For when I speak of the banality of evil, I do so only on the strictly factual level, pointing to a phenomenon which stared one in the face at the trial. Eichmann was not Iago and not Macbeth, and nothing would have been farther from...
Apr 12, 2025 | Essays, Non-Fiction |
I am not going to speak about the demise of the free press in India. All of us gathered here know all about that. Nor am I going to speak of what has happened to all the institutions that are meant to act as checks and balances in the functioning of our democracy. I...