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The History of Go (Weiqi) and the Games at Danghu
Philippe de Felice
In this essay, Philippe de Felice provides a short history of the ancient Chinese game of Weiqi, known in the West as ‘Go’, including a short description of the epic 18th century match between two great masters at Danghu in 1739…
Read moreGrowing Up With Eighty Years of Dangers in Los Angeles
Stephen Geller
Steve Geller recalls on his idyllic childhood in Los Angeles and mourns the recent inferno that devastated the city of his youth…
Read moreGrowing Up With Eighty Years of Dangers in Los Angeles
Stephen Geller
Steve Geller recalls on his idyllic childhood in Los Angeles and mourns the recent inferno that devastated the city of his youth…
Read moreFlora of the Himalaya
Hilary Lewis Ruttley
Hilary Lewis Ruttley, Yoga teacher and Indian Art expert, describes the enduring charm, medical importance and cultural significance of the Himalayan blue poppy and other flora from the Sacred Himalayan Landscape. She also makes a passionate plea for conservation of this precious resource for humanity…
Read moreHip and the Creative Experience
Stephen Geller
Steve Geller writes about the creative process of Jazz…
Read moreHow and Why I Am Ahead of My Time – and Happily!
Stephen Geller
“Why am I aware, at the age of 83, that the only theme I felt and feel worthy of pursuit as a writer of novels and plays and films, was and is the strength of creation, with its costs in a society that appears politically, socially, economically and psychically to have its own way of defining, if not defying, creation to creators?”
Read moreSome Words About My Father, Me, and My Mother
Stephen Geller
A re-creation of the recreation of father, son, and mother, in interesting days and nights. The author would like to thank Kae Geller for her editorial gifts, utilized five-fold times, upon this demanding text. Please consider his thanks an even more loving essay!…
Read moreThe First of Memories: Colin Wilson, Ritual in the Dark and a Screenplay of Friendship
Stephen Geller
Stephen Geller writes about the making of a film of Colin Wilson’s early novel ‘Ritual in the Dark’ and his experience of working with the author…
Read moreThe First of Memories: Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Stephen Geller
A memory of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Stephen Geller was the scriptwriter for the film of ‘Slaughterhouse 5’ and got to know Vonnegut well…
Read moreThe Art of Tragicomedy
Stephen Geller
Stephen Geller analyses Donald Trump’s explanations of what really happened during the storming of the Capitol on 6 January 2021…
Read moreConstitutional Monarchy – An Anachronism That May Still Have Value
David Tenterden
David Tenterden considers the arguments for and against a Constitutional Monarchy and its role in British society and political life…
Read moreMimesis
Stephen Geller
Stephen Geller recalls his early life in an artistic family living in the Hollywood film industry and his current writing…
Read moreLiving with the Barbarians
Philippe de Felice
The end of the western Roman Empire was an event that still resonates today – a little-known autobiography of a rich Roman gives us a dramatic insight of the barbarian invasions…
Read moreOf Muses and a Muse
Stephen Geller
Stephen Geller’s fond tribute to his actress mother and his unusual family of Ukrainian Jewish emigres…
Read moreGoodbye and Hello to a Friend
Stephen Geller
How a friendship proved to be life-affirming, and life-changing to the author: a tribute to the famous lyricist, Marilyn Bergman…
Read moreHadrian’s Farewell to Life
Philippe de Felice
At the end of his life, the desperately ill emperor yearned for death. His poems and contemporary sculpture provide moving evidence of his end…
Read moreThe Rouffignac Flutings
Philippe de Felice
Are the mysterious markings on these ancient caves evidence of rituals of our Palaeolithic ancestor?
Read moreSappho’s Private Agony
Philippe de Felice
Has Sappho’s poetry as homoerotic literature been based on a misunderstanding of Greek conventions? Recent discoveries of new Sappho texts may indicate this…
Read morePericles
Andrew Rissik
Andrew Rissik argues here for the central importance of Shakespeare’s Pericles. This rarely performed play was left out of the 1623 First Folio, and is still regarded by scholars as verbally problematical and artistically weak…
Read moreThe Ghost of Amenemhat
Philippe de Felice
In this essay, Philippe de Felice surveys one of the masterpieces of ancient Egyptian literature, “The Instruction of Amenemhat”, which describes the assassination of Pharaoh Amenemhat I, the founder of the 12th dynasty…
Read moreDon’t Feed the Alligators
Steve Geller
Steve Geller’s recollection of establishing a touching but unsettling relationship with a Georgia marshland alligator…
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