A stroll across the sky
Every now and then I spend an afternoon in the bookstore, savoring pages and dreaming adventurous stories about far-away characters. Recently I came across an unusual book by the French […]
Author Archives: Guests
Amature Lovers and Remembered People
Cockroaches big enough to be ridden by small jockeys squirmed across the floor, the smell of urine and alcohol hung in the air, and everything seemed to be caked with […]
Freud and the Love Delusion
This is one thing that believers and skeptics should be able to agree upon: the story of Jesus is nonsense.
iFreedom
I remember it vividly, as if I had heard those words today, even if two years have already passed. I was in a car with the band of an Italian […]
Looking for Infinity
It is a fault of infinity to be too small to find. It is a fault of eternity to be crowded out by time. Before our eyes we see an […]
What shape are you?
Consumerism has given us many globally recognisable shapes. Creative types might think instantly of iconic design profiles: the figurine coke bottle, the Nike swish, the sleek Apple Mac. The cynical […]
A Look into Ourselves
[Editor’s note: today we have an excerpt from a classic argument by John Locke, the seventeenth century philosopher, to shake things up a bit] I think that it is beyond […]
Poetry and Sacredness
The German poet, theologian, and philosopher Novalis, a leading figure of European Romanticism, wrote these words about the poet’s identity: “Poets and priests were at first the same thing; they […]
The History-Turning Paradox
Bethlehem is emphatically a place where extremes meet. A mass of literature, which increases and will never end, has repeated and rung the changes on this single paradox; that the […]
Batter My Heart
Batter my heart, three-person’d God, for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to […]
Wondering Fair 