Ray David seldom lingered on the past, but he felt the presence of it now, and with good reason: he had just said yes to a woman who wanted to
I heard Jacques Derrida give his only lecture in Cambridge, England, in 1992 on the occasion of his being awarded amidst fierce opposition an honorary degree. Honorary degrees are routinely
I walked about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance
I cast my eyes
Out to sea from Staithes, North Yorkshire
Sally Heywood recorded Bringing the Last Boat Home as part of the BBCs IGNITE programme.
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The Mariners
Rebel polymath and cultural agitator, author of Bomb Culture (published in that tumultuous year, 1968), and a jazzman extraordinaire. Hard-drinking, lyrical, puckish and sublime, a rare (these days, increasingly so)
In the story of an epic wartime journey whose source lies in the intimacy of a profound love, the novelist Candida Clark finds both humanity and wisdom.
Anthony Minghellas
Bitter Thought
Green creepers cling to the jade trees,
And radiant lights play on each other.
Below are two true men
Who spread their wings and fly up on high.
Yosano Akiko (1878 1942)
Yosano Akiko (1878 1942)
(ä'ké' ko yo' sä' no), Japanese poet, activist, and critic. Best known for passionately romantic verse, she
Every twenty-four hours, the human body grows another 36 metres of hair. A man sprouts 30 centimetres of hair on his face alone.
LEFT: Always read the label: perils in
Over several months, women in the English city of Worcester talked about their lives to the co-editors of openDemocracys From My Experience strand. These were not just local conversations;
It seems to me that one of the greatest troubles accompanying the physical fact of conflict each day more imminent, is the psychological prison terrorism would have us believe in.
