Prose on The Culturium

Dec 10 2015

E. M. Forster: The Celestial Omnibus

Dora Carrington, E. M. Forster.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

The triumph of experience over knowledge

Nov 17 2015

J. D. Salinger: Franny and Zooey

J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey.
Typeface: Seb Lester

How a young woman’s spiritual crisis is redeemed by the power of familial 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 05 2015

Jean Cocteau: The Art of Cinema

Jean Cocteau.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

Capturing the soul of the artist on celluloid

Oct 27 2015

Alexandra David-Néel: My Journey to Lhasa

Alexandra David Néel.
Photograph: Preus Museum,
[CC BY 2.0] Wikimedia Commons

How a woman’s quest for solitude led her to Tibet’s forbidden city

Oct 22 2015

Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet

Paula Modersohn-Becker, Rainer Maria Rilke.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

To write is to live, and to live is to write