Wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing…
“Ah, drink again This river that is the taker-away of pain, And the giver-back of beauty!” – Edna St. Vincent Millay Why do writers drink? asks Blake [...]
Literature
Self-Help Books: I
I was thinking about self-help books last weekend. I’ve long been interested in them, both as a buyer and a prospective publisher. Self-help books have given me more [...]
“History claimed them…”
Lives shaped by large, historical events can end up trapped in them forever. This was certainly true in the past, but I wonder whether it still applies in the present, when [...]
A faith in the ineffable…
A Guardian article discusses the volume of unread books and the merits of the blank page: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2013/feb/18/unread-unreadable-books The [...]
Uncensored
Although politicians play lip service to our right to freedom of expression, political censorship in the West exists, is growing, and must be resisted. The latest examples [...]
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