This inaugural Magazine includes the following articles:
Opinion
Editorial: The Silence of an Image – We are pulling the sword from the stone, to use it as a pen, and we invite you all to join us on a critical journey
Philosophy
Music is Word: On the Gestures of Music
Jesenko Tešan touches on Theodor W. Adorno’s Philosophy of Music and takes us on a trip to his home town of Belgrade
Poetry in Ireland
Desmond O’Grady: A Full Life
Poet and writer Matthew Geden looks at Desmond O’Grady’s life and reintroduces him to us in our recurring feature essay: Poets in Analysis
Poetry in Review
Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet (1950)
A new look at, and evaluation of, the correspondence between Rilke and Franz Xaver Kappus, by John Tangney
Poetry in Review
Aforesaid by Robert Frost (1954)
In her review of Aforesaid, Niamh Prior takes us on a journey through forty years of Frost’s poetry in 66 poems
New Poems by Eugenio Montale (1976)
Matthew Geden explores the Italian poet and Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale’s collection of poetry
Poetry and Murder in the Jacobean Court: Sir Thomas Overbury’s ‘Wife’ (1631)
Some books come with a spectacular history. Ann Walsh examines this rare publication, including some detail of its provenance
Biography
Irish Philosopher William Thompson
A brief biographical account by Alfie O’Mahony
Idea and Impact
Idea: On the Sharing of Wealth
Holger Smyth considers the west Cork philosopher William Thompson and his influence on socialist thought
Impact: Using Business in Maasai-Land to Drive Change
William Thompson’s way of cooperative thinking, applied to the business initiative of a family man in Africa. An inspirational essay by Nelson Ole Reiyia
Libraries in Times of War
The Most Dangerous Library
Nicola Smyth takes us on a sad journey to a secret library in war-rattled Syria
A Lost Kind of Education
What does it mean to be young and motivated to ask hard questions about education?
Madlyn Smyth has some answers and shares her views
Shakespeare in My Life – Column
‘I Can’t Help It, I’m an Addict’
Fellow book dealer and Shakespeare specialist Christian White will entertain us for the coming year with his recurring column on ‘The Soul of the Age’
Forgotten Scholars
Johannes Scottus Eriugena (c. 810–877)
An extensive essay by Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin leads us back to one of the early mediaeval Christian philosophers who is now nearly forgotten
Bookshop & Community
Community at the Heart of a Bookstore
A regular feature in The Time Traveller will be our focus on the importance of independent bookshops in smaller communities.
Eddy Nix starts by telling us about his Driftless Bookshop in the heart of Wisconsin
Introducing: Specialist Book Dealers
We will regularly introduce some excellent colleagues from the antiquarian book trade and give them a chance to offer their services, expertise, and of course unusual publications – some of which will be exclusively for sale in The Time Traveller for a limited time. Antiquarian book dealer and publisher Klaus Breinlich from Frankfurt, Germany, a specialist in his field for nearly 30 years, describes a rare set of the Statutes and offers a special selection from his stock of books on law, history, economics, and much more
The Past is Now: Travels in Borges’s Uqbar
John Wronoski is one of the world’s most influential book dealers. For over 30 years he has educated and influenced the whole trade with his views on the value and importance of manuscripts and association copies, their provenance, and his passion for rare books in general. Many years ago he secured the private library of Jorge Luis Borges, and his landmark catalogue on Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese literature will be unrivalled for years to come. Please see here his essay on Borges’s Uqbar, and brace yourself for some of the original manuscripts he has for sale.
Provenance
Frans Molenaar
A life in fashion – books as inspiration. In his brief biographical essay, Marc O’Sullivan walks us through the Frans Molenaar collection we have for sale.
Masterpieces of World Literature and their Hidden Stories
Robinson Crusoe in Kinsale
Daniel Defoe’s account of Alexander Selkirk. A first edition of Robinson Crusoe, and the story of the book’s journey
Important Journals and Magazines
Studio Talk: Chester Beattie’s Internet
The Studio and its Endless Source of Aesthetics
In a regular feature, we will revisit this important art nouveau / arts and crafts periodical and enjoy travelling back in time through some of the most beautiful artwork and essays it provided at the turn of the twentieth century
Two Worlds Monthly
Samuel Roth – His piracy attempt on Ulysses, and the Consequences
Printing and the Mind of Man
The Impact of Print on Five Centuries of Western Civilization
John Carter / Percy H. Muir and the Importance of Bibliography
Science Fiction
James Dwyer takes us on a Journey to Venus
with Edgar Rice Burroughs
