Co-opportunity
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Tucked away somewhere towards the middle of Co-opportunity is a consummate quote by Vaclav Havel, playwright and former leader of the Czech Republic: ‘Today, many things indicate that we are…
Art & Culture
Just for the Record
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Just as the likes of The Klaxons and Simian Mobile Disco followed their pointers to start a ‘movement’ that flickered briefly but brightly and led to a Mercury Prize Award…
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
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In the 20th century the Grimm Tales were praised by W. H. Auden as one of the founding works of Western culture, while the Nazi party held them up as…
Metamorphoses
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Broken up into various tales carrying a recurring theme of love, Metamorphoses was a major influence on medieval writers. One of the tales from the collection was adapted by Chaucer…
Beowulf
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The earliest owner of the original manuscript was 16th-century scholar Laurence Nowell, who was thought to have acquired it through William Cecil when he entered Cecil’s household as a tutor…
Eastern Promise
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Upon arrival in Beijing, the first thing to strike those unfamiliar with China is the newness of it all. It begins at the airport. So vast and elegant and empty…
High Life
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Picture this: bubble-like cells all joined together and floating in the sky. Inside each cell is an independent biosphere where whole communities live. For some, this is a utopian fantasy;…
The Snow Tourist
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Journalist Charlie English’s search for ‘the world’s purest, deepest snowfall’ is in part a quest for that precious memory of something lost, intrinsic to both the man and his culture.…
The Secret Life of the Universe
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This ambitious book attempts to investigate that connectivity between us, our world and the entire universe; her hypothesis being that this connectivity, once the domain of religious faith, is now under close…
