Sitemap - 2024 - The Library of Babel
Exploring the Two Types of Magic in Magical Realism
The Man Who Collected all the Legends of the Jews
We Need to Consider the Fact That Ancient Greece Never Existed
The Greek Muse and the End of Biblical Prophecy
Episode 9: Brian Boyd on "Lolita" and Vladimir Nabokov
Napoleon's Favorite Poet was Actually a Sophisticated Literary Hoax
For J.R.R. Tolkien, It Was Always About Writing the Perfect Fairy Tale
Episode 8: Carl Abrahamsson and the Occulturation of Our Time
Episode 7: William Cook on "The Divine Comedy" and Dante Alighieri
Episode 6: Dorsey Armstrong on "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and the Arthurian myth
Episode 5: Sonu Shamdasani on 'The Red Book' and Carl Jung
Episode 4: Étienne Fortier-Dubois on 'Atlas of Wonders and Monsters'
Episode 3: Alberto Manguel on 'The Library of Babel' and Jorge Luis Borges
Episode 2: John Higgs on the Writings and Art of William Blake
Episode 1: David Bellos on 'Life: a User's Manual' and George Perec
"Once a crystal choir Appeared while I was sleeping"
The origins of demons, monsters and false gods
Psychedelics are not a cheat code to enlightenment
Did Jesus Christ Have a Twin Brother?
How Lolita almost destroyed my dating life
Introducing Beowulf: Achilles’ well-behaved, much less complicated spiritual brother
Foolishly trying to image Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett still at the helm
Being a Feminist in Antiquity Meant Rejecting the World (and God with it)
Unless you're a devout Christian, you should really stop using the term 'The Old Testament'
Why I'd actually prefer to be sent to the first circle of hell than to heaven
You can't get any more modern than Kafka
How one science Fiction author turned Horror's most worn out trope on its head
Dialogue with the Soul: A Guide to Carl Jung's Active Imagination Technique
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tarot
The story of the Aleph: the most shy letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Socrates and his daimon on trial
Introducing the truly mysterious medieval work
How one poem by an ancient Greek poetess managed to subvert the war maxims of her time
Writing in English - or any language that is not your mother tongue - is a peculiar thing
What if the most iconoclastic philosopher in history got a hold of an X (Twitter) account?
Becoming Kwisatz Haderach: From the Talmudic sages to Dune