Recent Posts

• “But I did love!…” – James Tiptree, jr. and the World’s Greatest Science Fiction Story

  by Michael K. Iwoleit Yes, I know. There is no such thing as the world’s greatest science fiction story. There is no single greatest novel, no greatest opera, no greatest…

  09/23/2020

• The WCH in Second Life

  Please notice that the information page about our installation in the 3d Internet world of Second Life has been updated, including new links to the various landing points.

  05/23/2020

• Pioneers of Rock’n’Roll: Indonesian Bands in Germany

  by Chris Hyde What I have to say about the Indonesian bands mainly refers to the late 1950ies and early 1960ies because the Indo rock was already past its peak…

  01/12/2020

• Next Virtual Event: Konjaku Monogatarishu

  The geishas of The Little Yoshiwara – one of the longest-standing and most authentic Japanese themed sims in Second Life – will again perform classical Japanese stories, dance and music…

  09/18/2019

• Next Virtual Event: The Battle of Dan-no-Ura

  Due to an indisposition of our webmaster this announcement is a little short-termed but we hope it will still reach some of our target audience: The geishas of The Little…

  08/31/2019

• The Turkish Chekhov: Some Remarks on Sait Faik

  by Michael K. Iwoleit It’s an irony that a man who carved out such a humble, peripheral existence, who never really managed to establish himself in ordinary life, who prefered…

  07/26/2019

• Virtual Event: Tale of the Heike

  The next event in our Second Life installation will take place on Saturday, May 25th, starting at 2:00 pm Second Life time / 23:00 CET. The geishas of The Little…

  05/16/2019

• Latest Issues of Words Without Borders

  We’re also lagging a little behind with making our readers aware of the latest activities of a website that we deeply admire and that serves as kind of a role…

  11/11/2018