Walk with Us

The personal may be highly political. This concept was again confirmed as I read the book Treatment of Shame by Finnish psychotherapist...

The idea that our modern Western social order is inexorably the goal of social evolution should be dismissed. In the book The Dawn of...

Around 40 years after the Second World War, journalist-writer, Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich interviewed hundreds of women who served...

Kazuo Ishiguro's plaintive novel A Pale View of Hills is marked by clarity and mystery at the same time. The main character Etsuko, who...

Aino Sibelius, the wife of the great Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, was not a muse but an active figure in the creative work of her...

I got email from the New York State Communist Party. How on earth did this unknown party, from a distant continent, find my personal...

Just by embracing the thought written in the title anyone can start a process of personal change, if we are to believe certain self help...

Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy is being praised everywhere. One reason for the success is certainly the fact that even if the novels...

Supporters of slow travel often have a desire to combine being on the road and working. However, few are able to sustainably combine work...

The background of the economic crash that began in the United States in 2008 is revealed to the common reader in the book Swimming with...

The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness is a self-help book written by a well-known and recognized...

Ann Heberlein’s book on evil sheds light on an eternal problem that is smouldering in our time as well: how people start to nest in their...

The British author Ian McEwan is able to describe moments, moods and psychological relationships with magical precision. Even very young...

As an old-school citizen, I might not myself be able to live for several years as a vagabond and, well, a bit like a bum. But it’s not...

If you’re tired of hearing that social inequality is just a necessary consequence of the laws of economy at work, you can regain your...

Stevens, the venerable butler of an English stately home, goes through his life during a summer road trip in 1956, a story told in Kazuo...

A civilized German officer, an admirer of high culture and a composer of classical music, stays in a house in occupied France. The master...

A mysterious traveller arrives in Wandernburg, a vaguely placed town somewhere in the area of present Germany in the early 19th century. ...

Dan Kieran's guidebook for slow travellers made me experience again the dizziness I used to feel before my Interrail trips when I was...