Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy by User “Stavros Argiropoulos”, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

The Aesthetics of Cities

The Aesthetics and purpose of Cities I think it was in 2016 that I first began thinking of “cities”—by then I had lived in and briefly visited multiple, very different...

A Scene from the Play "Yotsuya Kaidan" (1836) by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), ukiyo-e.org.

The Ghosts of Japanese Folklore A close friend of mine, whom I met in Bangkok, has always been too interested in ghosts—their stories, also in mysterious techniques by which contact...