Barry Graham

It’s easy to differentiate between language and reality or actuality. We can say that a text is “just words,” but a bridge and a street and a mountain and a toilet are real.

The bridge, the … Read more

In English, when asking for a description of an experience, we usually ask, “What is it like?” 

Perhaps it would be more useful, in writing and thinking, not to automatically fall into comparison… Read more

Hiroshige died in 1858, the year after he painted Asakusa ricefields and torinomachi festival. The world he depicted is gone, like him, and yet his images are so vivid, so spacious … Read more