‘I shouldn’t be here’, he thought, as he touched the wooden frame of the small house door. ‘I shouldn’t be here’, he imagined his father’s …
How Childhood Myths Became Sobering Accounts of Societal Injustices
Bailam corujas e pirilamposEntre os sacis e as fadas.E lá no fundo azulNa noite da florestaA lua iluminouA dança, a roda, a festa…[O Vira, Secos …
The World’s Worst Magician and Other Drawings
This collection of sketches brings together representations of ideas or elements typically associated with magic, from the stars and the sky, to cats and wise …
On the Peculiar Nature of Emotional Time Travel
Following my grandfather’s death, my mother kept several of his jackets and sweaters lodged away in the deeper part of her closet. She put them …
The Magic of Food
‘Food’, my Dad begins, stretched out languorous and pleasantly full after one of my Mum’s legendary Sunday dinners, in the back garden amongst the summery …
The Unexplained Beauty of Chance Encounter
Those of you who have read Milan Kundera’s Unbearable Lightness of Being know how beautiful and poetic circumstance can be. If you have watched Alejandro …
Magic Realism in the Age of Covid-19
You don’t need me to tell you, as so many news reporters, employers, business owners and governments have so often noted, that we are living …
The Appropriation of Magic: How White People Demonised Voodoo
Last summer I visited New Orleans, the home of Louisiana Voodoo. New Orleans is a city which has a whole tourism industry built on Voodoo, …
There are a million lives
There are a million lives within the small confines of this grotesque heart, And the sticky eye dust-The corneas morning drool- Of historical cyclops’, Cakes the …
Patriarchy and Magic: Demonising Marginalised Bodies
“Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of …