Americans usually assume that literature exists to depict life, while Russians often speak as if life exists to provide material for literature.
Lawrence Winkler is a physician, traveler, and natural philosopher. His molecules have morphed from medicine to manuscript. He lives with Robyn on Vancouver Island and in New Zealand, tending their gardens and vineyards, and dreams.
Saturday, 24 August 2019
How the Great Truth Dawned
Americans usually assume that literature exists to depict life, while Russians often speak as if life exists to provide material for literature.
Tuesday, 20 August 2019
Herman Melville’s Great Escape
He wants—or wants to want—to live forever in that “outside,” to be permanently in transit, to be away.
The Mystery of ‘Skeleton Lake’ Gets Deeper
Hundreds of skeletons are scattered around a site high in the Himalayas, and a new study overturns a leading theory about how they got there.
