Will Buckingham

For the next ten days, I’m on a residency at the Nanning Literary House along with my Wind&Bones collaborator, Hannah Stevens.

Earlier this week, I was over in Taitung with my Wind&Bones collaborator, Dr.

I’m at Busan airport, waiting for my flight back to Taiwan.

Back when I was a child, I had a drawer where I kept the things that I liked to collect.

One of the projects I’ve been working on this year is a project exploring Liu Xie’s Wenxin diaolong 文心雕龍, or The Heart of Literature and the Carving of Dragons and its contemporary significance and resonance.

This December, I’ll be with my Wind&Bones collaborator, Dr Hannah Stevens at the Nanning Literature House (南寧文學·家) here in Tainan, working on a 10-day project exploring food, stories and the philosophy of everyday life in Taiwan’s unofficial food capital.

Earlier this week, the BBC World Service broadcast a documentary about education in post-coup Myanmar / Burma, produced by Mollie Davidson at 7Digital.

We want a world where everything is connected, from rocks to the human heart.

This year, I’m down at the Mad Dogs and Vintage Vans glamping site, outside Ross-on-Wye, where I’ll be guest writer on this year’s Freedom to Write retreat, along with my writer friends Yvonne Jewkes and Andy West.

This August, my Wind&Bones collaborator, Hannah Stevens and I will be relocating to Taiwan.

I’m delighted to announce that I have recently been appointed to a new position as a member of the core faculty at Parami University, working with students in Myanmar and beyond to provide high-quality undergraduate education in what are the most difficult

This year, due to ongoing travel restrictions, I wasn’t able to attend the 2023 6th World Yijing Summit Forum in person.

I’ve been having fun learning a little Taiwanese lately.

I’m delighted that at Wind&Bones, we have been awarded funding from the British Council Connections Through Culture scheme for a small pilot project exploring the contemporary significance of the Wenxin diaolong (文心雕龍), or The Heart of Literature, and the…

When we moved the Looking for Wisdom HQ up to Scotland a year ago, we packed away all our philosophy books into boxes.

There is perhaps no headache greater than that of being a head of state.

Looking for Wisdom Interview: Comics artist and writer Barbara Stok talks about dogs, Cynics, philosophers, and the art of living.

I’m really delighted that HELLO, STRANGER has been shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards, in their 2022 General Nonfiction category.

Over the extended weekend, I have been getting up early to run a three-day workshop with Myanmar-based teachers on storytelling in the classroom.

Last weekend, I was over in Ireland at the Waterford Harvest Festival with my Wind&Bones co-collaborator Dr Hannah Stevens.

Yesterday morning, I was up early to give a talk to for Indigo Magazine’s book festival in Korea.

Next month, from the 9th to the 11th September, I’ll be over in Ireland with Wind&Bones, on a three-day writing residency at the Waterford Harvest Festival, run by the wonderful social enterprise, GIY.

On September 6, 2004, the Indonesian activist Munir Said Thalib, known simply as Munir, boarded flight GA-974 from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta to the Netherlands, via Singapore.

This paper was written for the 2022 Yijing World Summit Forum.

A few days ago, a journalist friend of mine, Assed Baig, posted on Twitter to share a news report on Iran’s booming book trade.

I’m intrigued by this definition of divination from Plato’s Symposium 188 c-d, as a practice of producing loving affection between gods and human being, or the science of the effects of love on justice and piety: Consider further the rites of sacrifice and

This August, I’ll be at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in conversation with Will Ashon.

Love, Strife and The Mad Machinery of War In his great poem, On the Nature of the Universe (De Rerum Natura), Roman poet-philosopher Lucretius (born c. 100 BCE) asks what it means to live fully in a world where everything is always in motion.

Philosophers Behaving Badly?

I love dandelions.

Last year, I was invited by the Chinbridge Institute in Chin State, Myanmar to contribute to the development of their new one-year diploma programme.

The Philosopher and the Love Potion If you were to trust Saint Jerome – and you probably shouldn’t – the philosopher and poet Titus Lucretius Carus, better known simply as Lucretius, met an unfortunate end.

One of the highlights of last year was the project I ran with my Wind&Bones collaborator, Dr Hannah Stevens, in conjunction with the brilliant Emprove Foundation in Bulgaria, and British Embassy, Sofia.

It’s a busy summer for translations and new editions of my books, and I’m really pleased that Hello, Stranger is coming out in a handsome new German translation, thanks to translator Felix Mayer.

This June, I’m heading down to Wales to be guest tutor in Broneirion, Mid-Wales, on the Freedom to Write retreat with the brilliant writers Andy West and Yvonne Jewkes.

Two Men, Fighting You don’t notice it at first.

The paperback edition of Hello, Stranger: Stories of Connection in a Divided World hits the shops in a couple of weeks.

I’ve just finished reading the brilliant Walking (走路) by the Taiwanese writer Lung Yingtai (龍應台) and the book was an absolute delight: an account of small journeys on foot and small encounters, both funny and moving.

At the end of this month, I’ll be Zooming in to the Pari Center, to give a talk as a part of their brilliant series on Love in the Time of Crisis.

It’s ten years since my children’s book, The Snorgh and the Sailor, was first published.

The brilliant Dr Elee’s Kirk’s book, Snapshots of Museum Experience, has just been published in Korean.

The Many Voices of the Huainanzi In the year 139 BCE, Liu An (劉安 179-122 BCE), the scholarly-minded King of Huainan, wanted to ingratiate himself to his cousin once removed, the Emperor Wu of Han.

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working on a piece for RE Today about notions of good and evil in non-Western philosophy.

Texts and Woven Threads The tradition of Nyāya philosophy in India goes back to a text called the Nyāya-sūtra.

Of all the conferences I find myself going to from time to time, the World Yijing Summit Forum in China must be one of the strangest, and the most fun.

Loneliness, Mortality and Terror Okay, folks!

Chronicles and Caterpillars If there’s anything that we can predict with certainty about the course of history, it is that history is unpredictable.

The Soul and Other Long-standing Problems What is the soul?

The Silent Reader There’s a story that Saint Augustine (354 – 430 CE) tells about his meeting with Ambrose, the bishop of Milan.

My book, Hello, Stranger has just been published in Korean.