Not casting Nic Cage in Magalopolis feels like a serious omission on Copolla's part

Artistin Marcella by Ernst Kirchner, 1910

I love how contemporary the subject of this painting by Ernst Kirchner looks, even though it's from 1910

The Profession That Does Not Exist | Baffler Symposium A partial history of the hidden labor that makes possible the poems, stories, essays, and books you read.

"Writing itself can serve as a form of spiritual recovery from the labor that funded it."

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Feeling strong levels of envy

It's three separate pieces, right? Was it dull? Or didn't coalesce?

Felt very little sympathy for Robert Pattinson's character's plight in 'The Drama' given that, as an art curator with a literary agent girlfriend, he can somehow afford to live in this kind of flat in New York.

Dalky?!

no one comes out of it looking good

I really like the Masthead / Contributors page of New Papers lit mag

Sounds great!

Too hot to handle? Why it’s time for straight male authors to rediscover sex It’s a high-wire act and the risk of an embarrassing failure can weigh heavily – but that’s no reason to avoid writing about sex, argues Black Bag author Luke Kennard

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Read a book last year that clearly hadn't been given a final proof — baffling!

You've got that, steaks and more psychoanalysts per head than anywhere else on earth. How could you leave it behind?

Do you get a weekly soda siphon delivery in Buenos Aires?

The Last Samurai. Its shouldn't work and yet it's amazing

Certainly not her best though

I use one of these when I stay at my wife's family's house and they are a joy to write with. For one thing you can write in the sun

My grandfather had the misfortune to be called John

Feeling very VIP as Jenna Ortega is turned away from the wine bar I'm currently in

So it's actually been 'Books on the Thameslink' this whole time?!

Jonathan is strictly riding from Highbury to Green Park and back again

It is better, for the simple reason that the book is not very good

If there's a Lionesses Line and a Elizabeth Line and a Victoria line then surely it should be the:
MENS' Mental Health Line

WEEKEND READING: What a decade of student enrolment data reveals about what the UK really studies - HEPI This blog was kindly authored by Dr Fadime Sahin, Senior Lecturer at University of Portsmouth London. The UK higher education sector faces mounting difficulties, including financial strains, student r...

Although undergraduate English studies enrollments declined by 37% between 2012/13 and 2024/25, creative writing ones specifically grew by 46% over the same period.

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Paratextual Activity by Nicholas Royle In 1991 I attended a launch event in London for a debut novel, A Matter of Life and Sex. The book was a handsome hardback with Gilbert & George jacket illustrations, the author a...

Nicholas Royle traces copies of Oscar Moore's "A Matter of Life and Sex" through charity shops, inscriptions & old business cards – a beautiful piece on books, strangers & the stories objects carry. His new book "Finders, Keepers" is out 14 April.

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Don DeLillo’s Ribald Hockey Romp Will Return to Stores

Do we have Heated Rivalry to thank for a reprint of 'The Amazons' ?

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I'm strangely irritated by this translator's note

An 'exclusive' speculative fiction short story
Deciding to make Rayner PM just to make it even more odious to Mail readers

Zero K is better than quite a few of his other late books (E.g. Point Omega, Body Artist) in my opinion!

Ian McEwan speaks fondly of the late 70s when a fee for one review would pay six months of his rent - in London.