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This was a wonderful summer for the novels of Sebastian Barry.  How do I describe them, beyond the regret at arriving at them so late -...

Let’s consider just how potent the motif of the journey is in the work of  Carl Gustav Jung, the psychologist who creatively wove...

Should I stay or should I go? All our beginnings follow something ending.  That most glorious beginning of new life, a birth, signals the...

I’d love to introduce you to a poem by Thom Gunn,  ‘Jesus and his Mother’ .  I found it over 50 years ago in Sam Read’s bookshop in...

Homesickness.  How would you define it?  When have you felt it? Sometimes it’s not just about feeling sad to be away from a familiar...