Magic takes many forms around the world: fairy and ghost tales, complex rituals and cosmogonies have served to […]
Category Archive: Book review
Rather than a classic travel book, ‘The Flood of 1903’ is more a story of natural disasters and […]
In Albanian mythology, the Kuçedra is a dragon-like creature who brings great misfortune to the land and people: […]
Long before highways were constructed and cars used, rivers were one of the most efficient way of travelling […]
When Bego Antón enrolled in the Icelandic Elf School, a woman told her she would write a book […]
‘Japan: Described and Illustrated by the Japanese’ is an ambitious Japanese encyclopaedia published between 1897 and 1898. These […]
To understand ‘Yama no Shashin’ by Linda Fregni Nagler, one must travel back in time to 1853. This […]
Desired landscapes is a biannual print magazine about cities: those that exist and those that only do exist […]
What these towns did achieve was “not only low-cost housing depositories for waves of new immigrants… [but also] […]
The 1929 crisis hit the USA hard. Unprecedented rates of unemployment and misery took over the land of […]