Ten things that you learn if you live alone for a year in an Arctic cabin I lived alone for a year in a cabin in the High Arctic, north-west Greenland. I went to the most remote settlement I could find and lived as close to...
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...