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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 […]
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 […]
The influence of Aleister Crowley on musicians such as Bowie, Page, Ab Soul, Joe Meek and Graham Bond
Is there a connection between Rudolf Hess’s crash in 1941, the Duke of Kent’s (’42) & General Sikorski’s (’43)?
When I first hung out with Colin Casbolt on Ibiza forty or more years ago, I was struck by the contrast between his flamboyant hippie style and the knowledgeable way he spoke about Criminology, a subject he studied at university and later lectured on while living in Denmark. Here is […]
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 […]
