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This whole Streeting vs Starmer story is such a Westminster bubble inanity from a bored media class that has gotten addicted to toppling governments and abdicated any responsibility for what they're actually meant to be doing in a healthy society
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This whole Streeting vs Starmer story is such a Westminster bubble inanity from a bored media class that has gotten addicted to toppling governments and abdicated any responsibility for what they're actually meant to be doing in a healthy society
One book isn’t enough. A million books aren’t enough.
November 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
One book isn’t enough. A million books aren’t enough.
On a pilgrimage
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
On a pilgrimage
I somehow only found out *after* he got elected that Zohran Mamdani, incoming Mayor of New York, is the son of...
Mira Nair.
yes, *the* Mira Nair, director of MONSOON WEDDING (Venice Golden Lion 2001), SALAAM BOMBAY!, MISSISSIPPI MASALA, the Reese Witherspoon VANITY FAIR, etc etc.
Mira Nair.
yes, *the* Mira Nair, director of MONSOON WEDDING (Venice Golden Lion 2001), SALAAM BOMBAY!, MISSISSIPPI MASALA, the Reese Witherspoon VANITY FAIR, etc etc.
November 6, 2025 at 8:23 AM
November 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Laurent Mauvignier, please
November 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Laurent Mauvignier, please
Two Saturdays in a row I’ve got points in quizzes for knowing a cimbalom is a type of dulcimer. This is the life.
November 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Two Saturdays in a row I’ve got points in quizzes for knowing a cimbalom is a type of dulcimer. This is the life.
"Comedian Amelia Dimoldenberg depicted herself as the divorce of Lily Allen and David Harbour"
November 1, 2025 at 6:13 AM
"Comedian Amelia Dimoldenberg depicted herself as the divorce of Lily Allen and David Harbour"
Highlight: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECZd...
The Old Religion
YouTube video by Florence + the Machine - Topic
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Highlight: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECZd...
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Happy Halloween.
October 30, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Happy Halloween.
Can't have Angela Carter back from the dead, but I can have this
Bloc Party x Interpol 2026. Sign up at go.mdln.com/blocparty for pre-sale access.
Pre-Sale Tickets: Nov 5
General On-Sale: Nov 7
Pre-Sale Tickets: Nov 5
General On-Sale: Nov 7
October 31, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Can't have Angela Carter back from the dead, but I can have this
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Hear the Twilight Sad's new single "Waiting For The Phone Call," their first in six years, featuring @thecure.com's Robert Smith on guitar
The Cure's Robert Smith Joins The Twilight Sad On Their New Single "Waiting For The Phone Call": Listen
Almost exactly 19 years ago, heavy-hearted Scottish indie rockers the Twilight Sad became a Stereogum Band To Watch. All these years later, the Twilight Sad are still going. These days, they’re probab...
www.stereogum.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Hear the Twilight Sad's new single "Waiting For The Phone Call," their first in six years, featuring @thecure.com's Robert Smith on guitar
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RIP to David Bellos, a great translator, teacher, scholar and popularizer. Here's a charming little essay about what he learned from his landmark translation of Georges Perec's 'Life: A User's Manual'. online.wsj.com/article/SB10...
October 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
RIP to David Bellos, a great translator, teacher, scholar and popularizer. Here's a charming little essay about what he learned from his landmark translation of Georges Perec's 'Life: A User's Manual'. online.wsj.com/article/SB10...
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RIP to a dear friend and eminent scholar, David Bellos.
October 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
RIP to a dear friend and eminent scholar, David Bellos.
one thousand, two hundred, and sixty FOUR pages. 17/09/26. yes please.
October 24, 2025 at 7:42 AM
one thousand, two hundred, and sixty FOUR pages. 17/09/26. yes please.
George Saunders and The O.C!
We are people of many parts.
We are people of many parts.
Points are available in the #Mastermind Predictions Competition. #quiz, #quizzymonday
Do some research, predict the week 15 answers - guess the answer and mentions in the questions.
Enter at allthingsquiz.com/competitions before 9pm on Sunday 26th October
Do some research, predict the week 15 answers - guess the answer and mentions in the questions.
Enter at allthingsquiz.com/competitions before 9pm on Sunday 26th October
October 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
George Saunders and The O.C!
We are people of many parts.
We are people of many parts.
Visited the wikipedia page for The Russian Futurists today and was shocked to be confronted with "are" rather than "were".
October 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Visited the wikipedia page for The Russian Futurists today and was shocked to be confronted with "are" rather than "were".
Phoned the Apple support line, and spent the half hour being chuckled at by Umar as he was surprised by finding out thing after thing that I do that places me in a technological dark age
October 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Phoned the Apple support line, and spent the half hour being chuckled at by Umar as he was surprised by finding out thing after thing that I do that places me in a technological dark age
I tell you, I could happily listen to Cloudbusting for ten years straight
October 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I tell you, I could happily listen to Cloudbusting for ten years straight
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always read @alexshephard.bsky.social on Literature Nobel Day newrepublic.com/article/2015...
The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Boring Now
László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?
newrepublic.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
always read @alexshephard.bsky.social on Literature Nobel Day newrepublic.com/article/2015...
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I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!
October 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!