Writing about metaphor is dancing with your conceptual clothes off, the innards of your language exposed by equipment more powerful than anything operated by the TSA. Still, one would be a rabbit ...

Metaphor is a paradoxical detour. It moves away from what it explains to make it clearer. But this figure of speech can take us even further. It certainly makes us understand what the trainer already ...

The art of landscape is by definition poetic and symbolical. We respond to pictures of field and forest, mountain and sea because the varied moods of nature somehow seem to echo our innermost ...

When I wrote about this web surfing competition, it got me thinking about different metaphors for the internet.Surfing seemed like an odd one, an artifact from a very particular time in the mid ...