The Meaning of Meaning
Words tell much more than they say At the southernmost tip of South America, there once lived a hunter-gatherer people…
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The Chinese Mushroom That Makes People See Little People
A strange “new” mushroom seems to make everyone see the same kind of hallucinations. Is that even possible? Psychedelic mushrooms…
Before the Novel: Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron
Almost every even moderately serious lover of literature knows Giovanni Boccaccio’s erotic classic The Decameron, which he wrote around 1350.…
Happier Than Western Pets? The Complex Reality of Vietnam’s Free-Roaming Dogs
A look at the shifting cultural status, the lingering shadow of the meat trade, and why local dogs remain cautious…
Do Animals think?
a personal experiment of a ten year old boy I grew up in Finland in a family where animals were…
Geisha of Gion (2002)
Mineko Iwasaki (b. 1949) was regarded in the 1970s as the most beautiful woman in Japan, and that is not…
Where Are the Dogs in Memoirs?
There is a dog in the picture. Not just any dog, but Panu, a Karelian Bear Dog, who was a…
Kafka and the Girl
The following story is told about the Czech writer Franz Kafka. Around 1922, Kafka was walking in a Berlin park…
The Bookshelf Is the Reader’s Portrait
Over the past week I have taken more than fifty plastic bags of books to the recycling center. Each time…
Finland’s Forgotten Olympic Gold in Literature
When Finland’s Olympic medals are listed, one gold medal in literature is often forgotten. Finland won it at the Berlin…