In what looks to be at least partially and unintentionally hilarious, yet another biopic of Rikyu has been made. Based on the 2008 novel Ri...

The other day I referred to a politician's less-than-inspiring declaration as being "pretty weak tea." It's one of those ...

We've been enjoying the newly revived "Cosmos," on Sundays, hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson . That this show, which celebrates...

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As a thesis-writing diversion, I have finally gotten around to delving into Neal Stephenson 's latest novel, Reamde . A longtime fan of...

I'm loving the naturalistic artwork of Lieke van der Vorst , a young artist from the Netherlands. In a cut-out and block-print style, s...

As a brow-furrowed aspiring writer, while a teenager I inevitably found my way to William Burroughs. My relationship with his prose has r...

Food writer Mark Brown recently shared this missive with me. Mark publishes Argentfork , a spiffy and insightful occasional food ’zine, and...

Happy birthday, Marcel Proust , whose In Search of Lost Time (or The Remembrance of Things Past , if you must) remains the ultimate novel ...

Somewhere in the mists of my tea education, such that it ever was, I picked up the mannerism of adding whatever correct and required measur...

Today happens to be the fifth day of the fifth month I'll wear the straw sandals with blue-eyed cords I was given as they allude to a...

When New Year week is over, people are likely to be sitting around the fireside to enjoy a kind of hibernation, making and drinking tea all ...

The new year comes with the vanguard of the first streak of daylight accompanied by the burnished dawn wind, in a stately and majestic way. ...

Denise Levertov is one of my favorite poets, an insightful, usually accessible writer who tends to summon the divine — finding big revelati...

This video shows a presentation by writer Katharine Branning related to her book, Yes, I Would Love Another Glass of Tea . It's a curiou...

He busied with the tea, this time scooping out a handful of blue-green pebbles which he showed to me. "Blue tea," he said. "O...

For Halloween today, Bigelow Tea reflects on the tea habits of Boris Karloff, the actor who portrayed Frankenstein's monster in the firs...

I have as many copies of The Book of Tea as I do the Tao Te Ching, which is saying something. My favorite of the former is a tiny pocket ve...

Another autumn! Young chestnuts just keep smiling even though they are astringent inside. This is no different from me. — Tameie

Normally, I'm loath to promote the cutesy side of tea culture. I tend to be allergic to anything with an embroidered cat on it or a pure...