The art of story-telling
Henry Miller is himself a wonderful writer, and this comment about a critical element of successful story-telling took me by...
Russian tales and legends
There is a dark-forested haunting element to the illustrations in this French rendition of Russian stories. They are part of...
Seeing your own absurdity
Elizabeth Goudge is, in my view, one of the best children’s writers of all time, and I discovered her as...
The magic of great stories
Coming from a superb storyteller, this comment on the secret of the Great Stories is refreshing and insightful. It has long...
Silence or story?
Ivan is the protagonist of Grossman's novel Everything Flows, apparently modelled on his brother in law. This is an account...
Stories as therapy
The story as a means to bear sorrow is an idea I'd like to believe, but can't quite relate to...
Rowing about on a voyage of discovery
The lovely word ‘imram’ is, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, old Irish for ‘rowing about’ or ‘voyaging’. In its plural...
The Magic Ink-Pot
Always on the hunt for treasures among forgotten children's books, I came across this one by chance when I was...
The dog who understood
This mongrel, scooped up off the streets, in Vasily Grossman's imagined story of the real creature who was the first...
Stories as generosity
An expansive view of stories from Turkestan, as if they embody the sweeping spaces of the steppe, and the freedom...
Tell stories, ask questions
David Boyle teases out the limitations of measurement and statistics in capturing the complexities of human happiness and well-being. I...
The assignations of stories
An interesting way to present the connectedness of stories and their meeting points, and curious about the meeting at corners...
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