World Literature

Brief Lives

Lafcadio Hearn’s encounter with transience and crossing borders

This Darling Tree

Pictorial art is more obviously mediated than poetry is. It must engage with physicality, grapple with the varying textures, densities and shapes of tangible media,…

World Art / Culture

Of Gardens and their Spirit

Apart from the appeal of beauty and the medicinal or alimentary uses of plants, gardens reflect humanity’s attempt to understand its place in the world…