The urge to illustrate Shakespeare

This is an interview by Jean-Louis CLARET, author of Picturing Shakespeare Q1. What urges you to illustrate Shakespeare? It is difficult to determine this precisely, but I feel that I need to show, with shapes and colours, parts of my personal experience with Shakespeare’s dramatic world. It results from an...
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Recovering an eighteenth-century gem

This is a guest post by Melvyn New, author of Apphia Peach, George Lord Lyttelton, and ‘The Correspondents’: An Annotated Edition of a Forgotten Gem (1775) I first became interested in The Correspondents as the result of an essay in The Shandean, by Peter de Voogd, outlining the work’s several...
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The fourth school on power

This is a guest post by Waqas M Awan, author of Power of Sage: An Antithesis to Machiavellian Prince Since the cognitive revolution in humanity about 70,000 years ago, humans have mastered the art of cooperation on a massive scale. No species on Earth has the tendency to form as...
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Entering an immersive world of news

This is an interview by John V. Pavlik, author of Journalism and the Metaverse Q1. What exactly is the Metaverse? Answer: There is no single, agreed-upon definition of the Metaverse. Nor is there agreement about how it will be designed and built (Takahashi, 2022; Green & Works, 2022). However, one...
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