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"Hill House": Haunted by What Might Have Been

The great nonsense of cultural relativism has been superseded by personal relativism. Values are now relative to each person. Shirley...

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Fractures

An essay in pieces, on the ways in which we build by breaking and find beauty in fractures. 1. In Autumn by Ali Smith, an attempt at a...

Nostalgia

Does nostalgia have a purpose? Last month, as I read a book on Steven Spielberg’s filmography, I experienced a kind of emotional...

This Great Absence

What's left of religion without faith? It is this great absence that is like a presence, that compels me to address it without hope of a...

Jordan Peterson

Do I have to Love or Hate him? Marmite’s marketing patter is not an ideal principle to live one’s life by. Doing so has let us down...

Selling Us Short

How the entertainment industry exploits our lowest expectations You enter the bookshop, and you feel you have accomplished something of...

Monumental Loss

Why tyrants fear art In August of 1944, governance of occupied Paris was handed to a Nazi general, Dietrich von Choltitz, with one...