Of temples and cathedrals
An unusual analysis of the difference between temples and cathedrals, which seems obvious once it has been pointed out.Â
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A book that changed everything
James Rebanks describes reading a book which changed 'everything'. Can you name a book which did the same for you? ...
Music as trinity
Aldous Huxley here likens music to the Trinity due to its capacity to say more than one thing at the...
Out into the world
Maxim Gorky's childhood was a bed of harshness softened by rays of light and kindness, principally from his long-suffering grandmother. ...
Thick-pelted richness
Lovely notion, a frog-hopping place, cosy and dense with goodness, not to mention harbouring secrets. See also this meadow's...
Death-haunted aubade
This triologism emerges from Seamus Heaney's imagining how Philip Larkin would have written The Divine Comedy, triggered by his reading...
On seeing and sensing
Durrell seems to be seeking a subtle way to convey the perception of a view, before suddenly landing a pin-hole...
Of perfumed poems
Like a grove of nettles
An original way to describe a covey of great-coated soldiers packed on a boat.Â
The passageways was...
Putting everything right
Grossman's capacity to capture, with simplicity and delicacy, the nature and strength of love in many contexts is always touching. ...
Second hand books
Virginia Woolf's comment on second hand books is for all those of you who love the look and feel of...
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