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PAST AND FUTURE FACTION

Writers engage the past and anticipate the future when weaving fact into fiction. Let me begin with a confession. I’ve never liked the word “faction”. There’s something curt and clunky about it. But it does do the job when describing the introduction of historical characters into fiction, or when novels […]

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The Names of the Hare

An appreciation of Barry Flanagan In 1983, Barry Flanagan and Seamus Heaney collaborated on an illustrated version of The Names of the Hare, the Irish poet’s rendition of the medieval poem. Beneath three characteristically graceful leaping hares, there is a roll call of the impish creature’s names, this being the only way […]

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Sybarite among the Shadows

Introduction SYBARITE AMONG THE SHADOWS, the short story, was originally published in International Times, the newspaper of the counterculture, in 1977[1]. The story was inspired by a passage in Francis X. King’s Ritual Magic in England which asserted that Aleister Crowley introduced Aldous Huxley to mescaline in pre-war Berlin. I found the notion of […]

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