Anthony Lewis is the multitalented adventurer extraordinaire behind The Lost Valley of London, a website which highlights London’s strange and fascinating history. He’s also an Exhibitions Assistant and tour guide with Shakespeare’s Globe and a voice over artist with over four years of experience. Recently I caught up with Anthony to talk about the Lost Valley…
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Interview with author Andrea Zuvich
The Age of the Baroque–one of the most creative periods in world history–began around 1600 and lasted until the mid 18th century. It was a passionate, transitional era which gave rise to mavericks like Vivaldi, Bach, Spinoza, and Descartes. Andrea Zuvich, also known as the 17th-century lady, is a historian, novelist, and former thespian who specialises…
Interview with author Paul Green
I had a chat with Paul Green, a playright, poet, and bluesman. A former radio broadcaster, Paul has worked with the BBC and performed at venues such as Treadwell’s Bookshop, the Southbank Centre, and the Oxford Poetry Festival. Paul was also a lecturer in media at the Royal College for the Blind from 1995-2011. The…
Interview with author Francesco Dimitri
I caught up with Francesco Dimitri, the author of several critically-acclaimed fantasy works including L’eta sottile, Pan, and Alice nel paese della vaporità. This year his 2007 novel La Ragazza dei miei Sogni was optioned for a film by Draka, a Rome-based production company. Francesco spoke to me about his experiences documenting the Raelian…
Los Angeles Noah: Reverend J. E. Lewis and the Liberian Arks
“In order to survive this [being Black in America], you have to really dig down into yourself and recreate yourself, really, according to no image which yet exists in America.” -James Baldwin In September 1919 The Wild West Weekly, a periodical specialising in adventure narratives of contemporary life in the American West, picked up on…
Mermaids and Anti-Colonial Resistance in the Andes
“I had heard versions of merpeople stories—primarily those about mermaids—in many highland villages while doing research in the Andes…I didn’t yet understand how these stories tied into the larger sociopolitical context of Spanish rule.” -from “The Revolutionary Power of Andean Folk Tales” by Dr Di Hu Mermaids and sirens have long played a prominent role…
Arcana Imperii and the Legacy of the Deep State
“We may smile at the mystifying style of James the First, but it veils a dark truth: ‘You must not dip too deep in what kings reserve among themselves, among the arcana imperii.’” – from Commentaries on the life and reign of Charles the First, King of England, vol. I, by Isaac D’israeli As with…
Apocalyptic Rhetoric And The Political Allure of the End Times
“The millennium is at once everywhere and nowhere in our culture…” -from “The Millenia-Old History of the Apocalypse” by Anthony Grafton (1999) According to the author or authors of the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus, when asked to describe the signs of the Second Coming, cautioned his disciples against jumping to conclusions. There would be, he…
From Spirit to Social Bot: The Familiar Shapes Documentary
“They can assume all manner of shapes at their pleasure, appear in what likeness they will themselves…they are most swift in motion, can pass many miles in an instant…” -from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton (1621) Almost four hundred years ago, a young Oxford graduate named Joseph Glanvill published The Vanity of Dogmatizing, a…
Political Magic in England
“To reveal and discover conspiracies, and to govern the greater things of life; as to blast or succeed the enterprises of princes and people; to tell and foretell the success of such and such undertakings; and even to influence the undertakers…” -from A Compleat System of Magick: or, The History of the Black Art by Daniel Defoe…