Bits and Bobs: A Reader’s Recommendation, Kafka’s Zero Chill Reading Advice, & MoreThe cover painting is 11am, Monday (2024) by Joy Labinjo, an artist brought to my attention by one of you kind readers...
Bits and Bobs Bumper Edition: Reading Recommendations, Art, Fashion, Poetry, & More!"There’s a mighty canyon that runs down the middle of the world of the word, carving through bookshops, libraries and...
How to Be a Rose: Boxwalla x Lepaar Skincare BoxIn December 2024, we showcase a true artisanal brand that will forever have our heart: with three products that tell...
Bits and Bobs: Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton, Being Twenty in Iran, Etel Adnan, & More"Since the day I found her, it felt as if a spell was cast on this corner of the Earth."...
The Nobel Prize for Literature 2024 SpeculationOctober is here again. As always, we've been debating who will win the Nobel Prize for Literature this year, and...
Bits and Bobs: Hilary Mantel, Katie Ward, Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Cillian Murphy, & More“Greatness and gentleness are possible.” In 2007, writer Katie Ward was 28 years old and had submitted her debut work...
Bits and Bobs: Solvitur Ambulando, David Tennant with Tchaikovsky’s Skull, & More“Writing is one way of making the world our own...walking is another." Solvitur ambulando—Latin for ‘it is solved by walking’...
Bits and Bobs: Eleanor Clark Befriends Mary McCarthy, Getting Too Engrossed in Greek Mythology, World Tours, & MoreEarlier this week I had one of those unsettling moments where you realize there's practically four months left to the...
Bits and Bobs: Rivka Galchen, Anne Carson, the Oldest Surviving Photo of the Moon, & MoreI first spoke about the exemplary Rivka Galchen here, while I was still mid-way through her fabulous novel, Everyone Knows Your Mother...
Bits and Bobs: Romila Thapar, Leon’s View, Acronyms, Apples, & More"I am sitting for the moment on the veranda-like projection of our rooms and I can see in the distance...
Bits and Bobs: Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrot, the F Word, & More"Sharon, if you're watching this, I want my dog back." Did you happen to see the viral post about Turkish...
Bookish Babble: Edna O’Brien, The Booker Prize, and MoreEdna O'Brien (1930–2024) "To read her is to know love; of words, of literature, and of life itself." Irish literary...
