Poetry as Socio-proctology

 Few authors have enriched my life as much as Borges. Yet, I first came to him through Foucault- a writer who has destroyed the brains of mo...

Satyajit Ray had the three hall-marks of genius 1) he was intensely productive and individualistic. He was a true auteur who, as he gained i...

 The Point has a good article on Kant's 300th birth anniversary in which different philosophers highlight different quotations from the ...

From Matthew Arnold's  Oakfield  - 'exiled to Ind by the 39 Articles' To Parousia's kleos klepts Buchan's 39 paranoid St...

Some artists are parochial. They serve a local market. Some parochial artists may be said to have universal appeal. Anyone at all can enjoy ...