Prose and Passion

I needed cheering up after covering 30 years of climate failure in the penultimate feature of the year, so I followed a suggestion from the ...

I'm trying to figure out what happened to the ca. 15 children of the East Prussian patchwork family we met in the Every picture series...

After watching the amazing new Kafka movie in November, I started reading his letters to Milena Jesenská in the old paperback edition that...

In my Every Picture series , we met Luise Faust from the East Prussian patchwork family as a young woman in 1925 and then later in life m...

I get a bit of an anger management problem around the time of year when another COP climate summit confirms that humanity has spent another ...

Pirate Luthier update An old violin came in for some TLC and a new set of strings, after decades spent in decorative service o...

I'm torn between thinking that generative AI (in the shape of ChatGTP and such like) is a fundamentally bad idea that will accelerate o...

On the second-last full day of my recent trip to Germany I accidentally discovered a catalogue of the Ziegler collection, a corpus of more ...

While reporting on the revolutionary findings coming out of the sequencing of ancient DNA in the last two decades, I have occasionally come ...

Some thoughts on Franz by Agnieska Holland Czech Republic 2025 We know Franz Kafka through so many reflections and distortions that...

A few years ago, before I got obsessed with fixing fiddles , I found a lovely oud on gumtree. I was told it was made in Syria by a well-know...

We know that various groups of insects are declining, and we tend to worry about them if they are beautiful butterflies or busy bees, but we...