Sublime

with curiosity and compassion.

Sir Christopher Clitherow

It dies hard, this old idea that God relishes punishment. And it takes us back to the fact that all our God theories are projections of our own cultures and their compulsions and cruelties. They are all our stories, endlessly told to help us figure out where we’ve got to in the haunted wood.

Charles Bosman’s classic short story The Rooinek opens with two ragged Boers lying in hiding, shooting with smokeless Mausers at smart British officers riding out openly on horseback. The last British regiment ever raised by a Highland clan chief, the Lovat Scouts, were formed in response to such guerrilla marksmen in South Africa. The original dra

humanity’s most intractable disagreements.

He had come to live according to his own values rather than those insisted upon by the media. Against many odds, he had made

She was a harbinger of the sub rosa, the new world awaiting me in just a few weeks.