Article published in the Country Squire Magazine   ‘The Moon is a Balloon’ or is it?   Will we ever see the likes of David Niven again? It is a fair question to ask, isn’t it now that the new moralism has become absolutely hegemonic. Not so many years...

A paper on the Russian philosophy of language has been published in the Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 22 (65), 2023: 145-58.   Words to things: religious cosmologies in the context of the (Russian) Orthodox philosophy of language Abstract Religious cosmologies put forward by Russian philosophers...

Latest research on the semiotic analysis of prayer has been published. This research is based on my long-term fieldwork in Colombia and Russia. This research article can be found in Anthropological Notebooks 29 (1): 1-20.   This article brings together two unrelated ethnographies in which former hostages...

If you live alone in a cabin (it could be in the forest, up in the mountains or on the Arctic tundra), you soon reconnect with nature because the seasons and the weather become overwhelmingly relevant to the point they become internalized. This reconnection with...

Below is the transcript of a short interview with the students at Moscow State Linguistic University. Thank you, Katja, for putting the transcript together. It was a pleasure talking to you all.   Ekaterina: We are delighted to have with us today Dr Stephen Pax Leonard –...

My latest book, Annals of Solitude, receives strong reviews in America, UK, Germany and Russia. Comments include: 'the most moving and thought-provoking book I have read in years'; 'this Arctic Walden'; 'this book takes us to the forgotten centre of our spiritual possibilities in the...