I remember the confusion I felt in my religious studies class at school when the teacher asked me what…

While my story of Simon Simonov is mostly a riff on narcissism, it’s obviously inspired by some of the crazier…

I’ve never liked festivals much. They’re crowded, the food is expensive and bad, they’re muddy, and if you lose your…

Stories from Lao tzu, Chuang Tzu and other Chinese mystics from thousands of years ago.

“Good day! I saw you from far away and I am starving to death!” “Good day! I was dead but…

The novelist, Jonathan Franzen, gave a commencement address at Kenyon College this year and it was such powerful stuff that…

I think I owe a good deal of my nomadic existence to a kid’s television program from the 80’s called…

You think of a navigator and you picture someone bent over charts and maps, studying a sextant and making longhand…

The strength of character shown here by Sinead O’Connor really blew me away. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4fVxcT00Sc She was due to sing at…

Theo Jansen makes herds of beasts out of plastic tubes that will live their lives on beaches, powered by the wind.

A story of the trickster god, Loki, and how too much goodness and purity is just asking for trouble.

Clouds made from giant brains, humans from drops of sweat and the sun and moon desperately trying to outrun ferocious wolves in vain – the vikings easily had the coolest creation story.

1001 Arabian Nights are to the Middle East what Shakespeare is to the English-speaking world. Wild, imaginative, sensual stories that have influenced writers for centuries.

I got my name by hitchhiking to India but the Tom Thumb stories go way back. Tom Thumb has been…

The Essential Rumi from Coleman Barks These are a few of my favourite stories from the luminous Sufi poet, Rumi,…