Modern life makes it easy to lose our connection to nature, to others and to our childhood. Can art help? Patrick Dougherty builds fantastic nest and hut forms from saplings, fusing …
Men who have never had to fight love a weapon. They love to hold it in their hands, feel its balance and speculate on the damage they might do, were …
My mother used to read to me every night when I was little. We got through most of the major fantasy books of that time. The Narnia books by C.S. …
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?…If we value the freedom of mind …
How often do you ignore a dream, dismiss it as fantasy and then see echoes of the dream around you the following day? What if a dream were the forewarning …
Dragon myths are universal. Dragons themselves vary widely from one imagination to another. What do they show us about ourselves? Our myths tell much about what we hold dear, and …
You can’t map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons …
