Alice in bed

By | June 17th, 2016|LRO 38|

Alice in Bed is a play in which Alice James, the sister of trans-Atlantic novelist Henry James and American psychologist William James, remains numb—waiting, petrified in her bedroom. She received the same education as her brothers and yet she does not know what she should do with her wit. She keeps dreaming and the arbitrariness [...]

LONDON – Tale of a city of ones-all-alone

By | June 17th, 2016|LRO 38|

In different centuries and eras, London has given refuge to the Huguenots, the Jews, the Bangladeshis and the Russian Oligarchs – the latter, the most persecuted group of them all, because they persecute each other. Asylum seekers or economic migrants, why do they choose London? Is it because they do not know that in London [...]