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Rupert Davies Maigret tonight.
December 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Rupert Davies Maigret tonight.
Looking forward to Nastassja Martin's 'East of Dreams'.
'In the Eye of the Wild' has never left me.
'In the Eye of the Wild' has never left me.
December 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Looking forward to Nastassja Martin's 'East of Dreams'.
'In the Eye of the Wild' has never left me.
'In the Eye of the Wild' has never left me.
That particular register, call it the pedagogue's affliction, which announces itself in the voice before the actual advice arrives. The woman on the train station platform to whom the counsel was directed maintained an admirable composure throughout.
December 15, 2025 at 6:32 AM
That particular register, call it the pedagogue's affliction, which announces itself in the voice before the actual advice arrives. The woman on the train station platform to whom the counsel was directed maintained an admirable composure throughout.
‘Murder by the Book’: a Sunday evening well spent.
December 15, 2025 at 4:37 AM
‘Murder by the Book’: a Sunday evening well spent.
'In the West, anyway, everyone seemed as lost as
I was: why not try the East?'
—Ella Maillart, 'The Cruel Way'.
I was: why not try the East?'
—Ella Maillart, 'The Cruel Way'.
December 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
'In the West, anyway, everyone seemed as lost as
I was: why not try the East?'
—Ella Maillart, 'The Cruel Way'.
I was: why not try the East?'
—Ella Maillart, 'The Cruel Way'.
'Nothing very remarkable has happened.' — A. E. Housman, letter to his mother
December 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
'Nothing very remarkable has happened.' — A. E. Housman, letter to his mother
A masterclass in psychological pressure that makes Hitchcock look merciful.
December 14, 2025 at 7:42 AM
A masterclass in psychological pressure that makes Hitchcock look merciful.
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Fun fact: bananas today are far less slippery owing to the original export cultivar ('Gros Michel') being almost entirely replaced by the modern cultivar, Cavendish. That's why banana skin slips have largely vanished from contemporary comedy discourse.
December 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Fun fact: bananas today are far less slippery owing to the original export cultivar ('Gros Michel') being almost entirely replaced by the modern cultivar, Cavendish. That's why banana skin slips have largely vanished from contemporary comedy discourse.
'What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.'
Sir Thomas Browne, 'Hydriotaphia', 1658
Sir Thomas Browne, 'Hydriotaphia', 1658
December 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
'What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.'
Sir Thomas Browne, 'Hydriotaphia', 1658
Sir Thomas Browne, 'Hydriotaphia', 1658
Hammer, heat, and twisted steel. All in a day’s blacksmithing.
December 13, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Hammer, heat, and twisted steel. All in a day’s blacksmithing.
Major Rowland Raven-Hart and his “Canoeing in Ireland”: irishwaterwayshistory.com/people/major...
Not quite the rabbit-hole I intended to follow.
Not quite the rabbit-hole I intended to follow.
Major Rowland Raven-Hart and his “Canoeing in Ireland”
Canoeing in Ireland by Major R Raven-Hart, author of Canoe Errant and Canoe Errant on the Nile, was published by The Canoe & Small Boat Ltd (which described itself as the magazine for small cra…
irishwaterwayshistory.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Major Rowland Raven-Hart and his “Canoeing in Ireland”: irishwaterwayshistory.com/people/major...
Not quite the rabbit-hole I intended to follow.
Not quite the rabbit-hole I intended to follow.
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A satisfactory year in reading. Particular favorites: Flaubert’s ‘Salammbô’, Hélène Bessette, Bukowski’s ‘Post Office’, ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’, Édouard Levé‘s ‘Autoportrait’, ‘Kokoro’, Danilo Kiš, and ‘On the Calculation of Volume I’.
timesflowstemmed.com/2025/12/12/m...
timesflowstemmed.com/2025/12/12/m...
My Year in Reading 2025
I will almost certainly be immersed in Plutarch’s Lives for the remainder of the year, hence this early accounting. For six months or so my reading felt pulled by a urgent need for …
timesflowstemmed.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
A satisfactory year in reading. Particular favorites: Flaubert’s ‘Salammbô’, Hélène Bessette, Bukowski’s ‘Post Office’, ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’, Édouard Levé‘s ‘Autoportrait’, ‘Kokoro’, Danilo Kiš, and ‘On the Calculation of Volume I’.
timesflowstemmed.com/2025/12/12/m...
timesflowstemmed.com/2025/12/12/m...
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How did Aby Warburg use his ninety-nine Zettelkästen as tools for thinking, organising, and connecting ideas?
In this blog post, Dr Marianna Leszczyk explores the materiality and affordances of these remarkable index card boxes and what they offer researchers today
In this blog post, Dr Marianna Leszczyk explores the materiality and affordances of these remarkable index card boxes and what they offer researchers today
How Things Can Be Used: Aby Warburg’s Zettelkästen, Materiality, and Affordances
In this blog post, Dr Marianna Leszczyk explores the materiality and affordances of the Zettelkästen.
warburg.sas.ac.uk
December 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
How did Aby Warburg use his ninety-nine Zettelkästen as tools for thinking, organising, and connecting ideas?
In this blog post, Dr Marianna Leszczyk explores the materiality and affordances of these remarkable index card boxes and what they offer researchers today
In this blog post, Dr Marianna Leszczyk explores the materiality and affordances of these remarkable index card boxes and what they offer researchers today
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This is excellent and thoroughly recommended.
December 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This is excellent and thoroughly recommended.
A satisfactory year in reading. Particular favorites: Flaubert’s ‘Salammbô’, Hélène Bessette, Bukowski’s ‘Post Office’, ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’, Édouard Levé‘s ‘Autoportrait’, ‘Kokoro’, Danilo Kiš, and ‘On the Calculation of Volume I’.
timesflowstemmed.com/2025/12/12/m...
timesflowstemmed.com/2025/12/12/m...
My Year in Reading 2025
I will almost certainly be immersed in Plutarch’s Lives for the remainder of the year, hence this early accounting. For six months or so my reading felt pulled by a urgent need for …
timesflowstemmed.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
A satisfactory year in reading. Particular favorites: Flaubert’s ‘Salammbô’, Hélène Bessette, Bukowski’s ‘Post Office’, ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’, Édouard Levé‘s ‘Autoportrait’, ‘Kokoro’, Danilo Kiš, and ‘On the Calculation of Volume I’.
timesflowstemmed.com/2025/12/12/m...
timesflowstemmed.com/2025/12/12/m...
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Short post on a small book anniversary. this-space.blogspot.com/2025/12/this...
<i>This Space of Writing</i> ten years on
Today in 2015 my blog-collection This Space of Writing was published as a book . An ideal Christmas gift. Not a happy memory to be honest;...
this-space.blogspot.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Short post on a small book anniversary. this-space.blogspot.com/2025/12/this...
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Out running errands? Hiding away from it all? Our Most Anticipated Reads of 2026 episode makes for good company no matter what you're up to this season.
We're joined by @ssacks.bsky.social to chat about the books we most look forward to next year.
onebrightbook.com/2025/12/11/e...
We're joined by @ssacks.bsky.social to chat about the books we most look forward to next year.
onebrightbook.com/2025/12/11/e...
Episode 41: In Conversation With Sam Sacks About Our Most Anticipated Books of 2026
Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Dorian, Rebecca, and Frances as they discuss their most anticipated books of 2026 with Sam Sacks, prominent book critic for The Wall Street Journal, …
onebrightbook.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Out running errands? Hiding away from it all? Our Most Anticipated Reads of 2026 episode makes for good company no matter what you're up to this season.
We're joined by @ssacks.bsky.social to chat about the books we most look forward to next year.
onebrightbook.com/2025/12/11/e...
We're joined by @ssacks.bsky.social to chat about the books we most look forward to next year.
onebrightbook.com/2025/12/11/e...
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“My preoccupations are pretty focused at the moment. Kant and the Greeks are virtually all I read. I am trying to become particularly familiar with the aesthetic part of the critical philosophy.”
— Hölderlin to Hegel, July 1794
— Hölderlin to Hegel, July 1794
December 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
“My preoccupations are pretty focused at the moment. Kant and the Greeks are virtually all I read. I am trying to become particularly familiar with the aesthetic part of the critical philosophy.”
— Hölderlin to Hegel, July 1794
— Hölderlin to Hegel, July 1794
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(The Guermantes Way, tr. Scott Moncrieff et al.)
December 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
(The Guermantes Way, tr. Scott Moncrieff et al.)
‘I find the task has grown on me and I continue with it for my own sake too . . . The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them.’
Plutarch is every bit as companionable as Herodotus. Good company at dinner: many stories, questions. They’d stay late.
Plutarch is every bit as companionable as Herodotus. Good company at dinner: many stories, questions. They’d stay late.
December 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
‘I find the task has grown on me and I continue with it for my own sake too . . . The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them.’
Plutarch is every bit as companionable as Herodotus. Good company at dinner: many stories, questions. They’d stay late.
Plutarch is every bit as companionable as Herodotus. Good company at dinner: many stories, questions. They’d stay late.
'Contact with Greek culture came to him late in life, and he was really quite old when he took up Greek books and had his rhetorical style improved by Demosthenes, and to a lesser extent by Thucydides.'
Plutarch on Cato the Elder (Robin Waterfield's translation)
Plutarch on Cato the Elder (Robin Waterfield's translation)
December 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
'Contact with Greek culture came to him late in life, and he was really quite old when he took up Greek books and had his rhetorical style improved by Demosthenes, and to a lesser extent by Thucydides.'
Plutarch on Cato the Elder (Robin Waterfield's translation)
Plutarch on Cato the Elder (Robin Waterfield's translation)
Jean Rhys being furious with Diana Athill that Wide Sargasso Sea went out with two unnecessary words: “then” and “quite”.
December 5, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Jean Rhys being furious with Diana Athill that Wide Sargasso Sea went out with two unnecessary words: “then” and “quite”.
Sunday: Cristina Campo's essays (and puzzling over Kathryn Davis's faintly odd introduction - "a firm believer in destiny, she was also born with a yod in her chart, betokening an extraordinary and unshakeable sense of purpose").
November 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Sunday: Cristina Campo's essays (and puzzling over Kathryn Davis's faintly odd introduction - "a firm believer in destiny, she was also born with a yod in her chart, betokening an extraordinary and unshakeable sense of purpose").