The Birth of Art and Death, Second Installment: Neanderthals, Homo sapiens and the Lichtung of the Human Mind
A History of the Dead
Blood and Bone
The archetypal mystery narrative, from Poe’s Dupin stories to the novels of Henning Mankell, begins with the presence of a dead body. The hero detective then sets his mind to work on reconstructing the chain of causes that led to its existence as a way of recapitulating the scientific method with its tracking of the roots of motion by piec…