London has always been famous for its many and beautiful parks”, announced a 1966 guidebook to the capital; “just what those ...

What connects the CIA, Somerset’s Midsomer Norton Rugby Football Club and 1970s experimental literature in Paris? Easy. The answer has to be Harry Mathews. At least, it’s easy for me, because I’m the ...

In the town, no one has a shadow. That is because the people have their shadows stripped at birth, or else leave them at the impenetrable twenty-six-foot-high wall that surrounds the town, guarded by ...

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The Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita: ancient Indian texts that challenge Western categories, yet influenced the course of ...

The Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita: ancient Indian texts that challenge Western categories, yet influenced the course of ...

In the autumn of 1969, Susan Sontag was in the midst of a surprising metamorphosis from writer to filmmaker. Duet for Cannibals, her first film, which she wrote, directed and edited, had premiered at ...

What’s the purpose of philosophy? Alfred North Whitehead characterized it as a series of footnotes to Plato. You can see his point. On the surface, we don’t seem to have progressed much in the two and ...

The Restoration of 1660 gave rise to the powerful and enduring myth that monarchy has always been Britain’s destiny. Charles Stuart’s escape via an oak tree after his defeat at Worcester in 1651, ...