Muriel Spark, the Driver's Seat book cover. Painting of a woman's head and shoulders. The woman has black hair, a red and white striped top and a green scarf.

In this month's subscriber essay, James Bailey explores her bleak masterpiece of a life's descent into an "anguished shriek of bloody despair", making comparisons with "giallo horror at its grisliest".

Low Culture Essay: James Bailey on The Driver’s Seat by #MurielSpark

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So are we done feeling sorry for this guy now? Fed money clearly matters more than his supposed principles.

EDSBS Charity Bowl Benefiting New American Pathways

Now … how fast can we hit $400k? 😈

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UAB with a non-zero amount 🫡 (no thanks to me I am poor)

Chris Davis stepped out of bounds on the Kick 6

Kurt Cobain ghostwrote a lot of Hole's material

With John Boorman’s singular prison break picture Point Blank finally getting its due courtesy of Criterion, Gayle Sequeira unpacks the deep impact of an outlier: from Memento to John Wick and everything inbetween.

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Should've got the steak biscuit

I Want to Come Back Inside YouTube video by The Channel Where Harold Posts Music Videos

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Read that the women's match at WK was longer than any women's match at WrestleMania. King Of Sports, motherfuckers 🤼

This is the carniest thing ever, I can't really hate it tbh

the fella who seemingly purchased an onlocation package to sit with cole and wade (lol) is a billionaire with a crypto farm who served time for check fraud in the mid 2000s

Wait, WWE used NICKELBACK for the theme song for Mania? In anno Domini 2026? That is the most damning thing I've heard about them today.

Oddly enough this weekend has reminded me that I do miss watching wrestling. The stuff I like, not the lame shit, even if the stuff I like are all dying territories probably.

And I kinda wish I had reach so people could yell at me about it being fake so I could link them to Koji Kanemoto matches

*sack

"Do you want people to lose their jobs?"

Yes. Specifically Seth Rollins, I want him drinking cheap whisky out of a bottle in a paper back whilst standing in front of a burning barrel of trash.

Everyone else that doesn't suck can go to AEW, Japan, etc

They should go out of business actually, that would be good for wrestling as a whole

I don't think I've mentioned it on here but since it's WrestleMania weekend:

Thekla please strangle me irl 🤼

Seriously though am I just remembering selectively or did the website not used to post clickbait slop like this?

Every time I see dreck like this on the Observe site nowadays I can usually guess correctly who wrote it

Hard hitting journalism

He did Hana Kimura's funeral

the fuck has that got to do with MTG, man

#MassiveAttack have collaborated with #TomWaits on a new song—‘Boots On The Ground’—which comes with a politically-focused video that draws on footage of recent US protests against the actions of ICE and military action being carried out by the government

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Highly unlikely I will revisit so I genuinely don't know why I just saw a headline assuring me that they are not a psyop

Listening to a Geese song. Why exactly are we getting thinkpieces about this band?

How disappointed am I going to be if I finally check this band out?

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goddamn just say "it's different when we do it" and be done with it