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A very old story and a very big screen
There is a moment, somewhere around 2100 BCE, when a scribe in Mesopotamia pressed a reed into wet clay and recorded a story about a king named Gilgamesh who was...
A very old story and a very big screen
There is a moment, somewhere around 2100 BCE, when a scribe in Mesopotamia pressed a reed into wet clay and recorded a story about a king named Gilgamesh who was...
The long life of things that become books
Before a book was a book, it was almost certainly a tree. I mean that literally, physically, in the most straightforward sense possible. The pages you hold, the cover you...
The long life of things that become books
Before a book was a book, it was almost certainly a tree. I mean that literally, physically, in the most straightforward sense possible. The pages you hold, the cover you...
Vanilla and the strange passage of time
There is a word for the love of the smell of books. Bibliosmia. Someone at some point decided this experience was specific and universal enough to deserve its own name,...
Vanilla and the strange passage of time
There is a word for the love of the smell of books. Bibliosmia. Someone at some point decided this experience was specific and universal enough to deserve its own name,...
The day I started listening to goats
I have been thinking about goats lately. Not because I own one, or have developed any sudden interest in mountain climbing (both remain firmly outside my current life plan), but...
The day I started listening to goats
I have been thinking about goats lately. Not because I own one, or have developed any sudden interest in mountain climbing (both remain firmly outside my current life plan), but...
The problem with seeing giants
I was somewhere between Matjiesfontein and Laignsburg, alone on the N1 with nothing but the Karoo for company, when I noticed I wasn't alone.He was already in the passenger seat....
The problem with seeing giants
I was somewhere between Matjiesfontein and Laignsburg, alone on the N1 with nothing but the Karoo for company, when I noticed I wasn't alone.He was already in the passenger seat....
Ordinary men who make magic
My father is a reader.Not an academic reader. Not a man who underlines things or keeps a reading journal or obsess about narrative structure. He likes Wilbur Smith and Clive...
Ordinary men who make magic
My father is a reader.Not an academic reader. Not a man who underlines things or keeps a reading journal or obsess about narrative structure. He likes Wilbur Smith and Clive...