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...
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...