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On Drinking Tea
Poetry China

On Drinking Tea

Will Buckingham –

A Chinese text on the twenty-four occasions on which to drink tea.

Storytellers and Anthropologists
Anthropology Indonesia Writing Storytelling

Storytellers and Anthropologists

Will Buckingham –

Thoughts on storytelling and anthropology

Boredom, Flow and the Eggs of Experience
Buddhism Creativity Philosophy

Boredom, Flow and the Eggs of Experience

Will Buckingham –

Boredom, creativity and Walter Benjamin

The Rhetoric of Urgency
Buddhism Philosophy

The Rhetoric of Urgency

Will Buckingham –

Why so urgent?

Big Beasts, Little Beasts, and the Value of Creative Writing
Creativity Teaching Writing

Big Beasts, Little Beasts, and the Value of Creative Writing

Will Buckingham –

Creative writing teaching is about more than churning out big-shot novelists.

Turning About Once Again
Buddhism Travel Research

Turning About Once Again

Will Buckingham –

Thoughts on meditation and research, and a return to Bodhgaya, after a gap of 17 years.

Knowledge and Friendship at the End of the World
Philosophy Tove Jansson

Knowledge and Friendship at the End of the World

Will Buckingham –

On Tove Jansson and the apocalypse