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...
Watch below the short film that accompanies the release of the forthcoming book, Annals of Solitude: A Year in a Hut in the Arctic. More details soon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB_2dreeiIg ...
I am delighted to announce that my latest book, Annals of Solitude, will soon be published by Wipf and Stock. More details will be forthcoming: This philosophical travelogue is a record of the joys (and frustrations) of disconnecting from our complicated, modern existence and living, at...
Latest research on the pragmatics of British comedy published in Languages and Modalities 2: 57-63: https://languagesandmodalities.ru/article/78375/ ...
Latest research on what it means to lose a 'divine' language is published in Journal of the Study of Religions and Ideologies 20 (60): 141-58....
Article published in Country Squire Magazine The sky was tawny; the late afternoon frosty and brittle. The fields crunched as the shooting party of Byronic heroes walked across the spines of the hills enjoying some light-hearted repartee. Percy cum-Banter had spent the day on a shoot...
I am delighted that 'The Ideology of Failure' continues to receive positive book reviews even if events regarding identity politics have moved on considerably since 2018. 'In the reviewer’s opinion, this is a brave, daring, magnificent book. It places the locus of resistance to the current-day...
As something of a polo player, I have had a long-term interest in horses. But this piece even pre-dates my riding career. Below is the reference to my reworked M.Phil thesis from the University of Oxford, supervised by Professor Martin Maiden. Somehow, after 15 years...
Published in the Country Squire Magazine Mr Ambiguous-de-Spode sat in the Fellows’ Common Room at All Souls College or The Warden and the College of the Souls of all Faithful People deceased in the University of Oxford for short, browsing the photographs of the Country Life...