Dec 03 2015 Rabindranath Tagore: Gitanjali Rabindranath Tagore. Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons How the power of solitude inspired a poetic genius
Nov 26 2015 Irina Tweedie: The Daughter of Fire Irina Tweedie. Photograph: © 2016, The Golden Sufi Center How the loss of a spouse led to the love of a Sufi Master
Nov 19 2015 Andrew Marvell: On a Drop of Dew Li Dir, Red and White Cotton Roses. Image: Public Domain How a dewdrop personifies the human soul
Nov 17 2015 J. D. Salinger: Franny and Zooey J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey. Typeface: Seb Lester Redemptive love
Nov 12 2015 Hildegard of Bingen: Sibyl of the Rhine Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias: The True Trinity in True Unity. Photograph: The Yorck Project, [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons Polymath and mystic whose artistic and intellectual output was unsurpassed
Nov 10 2015 Arseny Tarkovsky: Life, Life Arseny Tarkovsky. Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons How a father’s poetry inspired a son’s cinematic art
Nov 05 2015 Jean Cocteau: The Art of Cinema Edgardo Cozarinsky, Autobiography of an Unknown . Image: © Edgardo Cozarinsky Capturing the soul of the artist on celluloid
Oct 29 2015 John Cage: Silence Rob Croes, John Cage. Image: [CC0 1.0 Universal] Public Domain How a composer was beguiled by the sound of nothing
Oct 27 2015 Alexandra David-Néel: My Journey to Lhasa Alexandra David Néel.Image: Public Domain How a woman’s quest for solitude led her to Tibet’s forbidden city