The short answer is because he is a brilliant writer. But there are many brilliant writers out there, so why him in particular? What...

Eight years before he died in 2015, Terry Pratchett announced that he had a rare form of early onset Alzheimer’s disease. I received this...

When I first read Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass,  I soon realized that one invention (conceit, in the old parlance) made the book:...

Brač has long been famous for both the quality of its limestone and the skill of its stonemasons.  This is likely why the emperor...

Readers may be familiar with the three types of irony: verbal, situational, and dramatic. The history of Saint Domnius Cathedral in...

As you can see, I lied about what the next blog would be. Oh well. From about 1925 to 1930, C. S. Lewis and his friend Owen Barfield had...

Aerial View of Pučišća In Particular Pučišća In the next few blogs, I want to share something about the places in Croatia where a large...