The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

Space is the place. Saturn backlit - NASA Thirty-second in a  series  of notes and comments on The Book of Barely Imagined Beings Ch...

I am seven, and I am in the yard at Brosscroft. I am playing near the house, near the back door. Something makes me look up, some shift of...

Rilke's Orpheus : is a book about death and the lyric, how we are a product of two realms: the here and the not-here, the temporal an...

I have become accustomed to the use of 'ghost' to describe a species that still hangs on even though the ecosystem of which it is p...

Granta 102: The New Nature Writing contains much that is very fine. Pathologies by Kathleen Jamie, for example, is close to as good they c...

One might hazard that Buddhism teaches that life is a compulsive cycle of suffering and rebirth (as animal, human, ghost), a sleep of ignor...