On Sidewalks The discreet arteries of a vibrant city

"Sometimes I wonder if I’d be a different person if I had grown up in a city with better walking infrastructure."
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Bennett’s “prose comprises descriptions, repetitions, definitions, discoveries, and wildness in a way that has long been left out of contemporary literature.”

Anandi Mishra reviews this novel by an author “not pulling punches.”

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Is Gothenburg a Reader’s Paradise? Anandi Mishra thought she had it good in Delhi

Anandi Mishra thought she had it good in Delhi, but when she moved to Gothenburg, Sweden, she found a reader’s paradise artreview.com/is-gothenbur...

“In moving away from the usual tropes of expat writing—identity, selfhood, place, alienation, otherness, language, mannerisms—Savaş holds her characters in a humanity that’s affable and reassuring to read.” – Anandi Mishra

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it's officially out! :)

Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.

Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities

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My brief contribution is about Substack. Many thanks to the incredible team at The Drift.

Is Gothenburg a Reader’s Paradise? Anandi Mishra thought she had it good in Delhi

I moved from Delhi to Sweden and realized: your environment doesn’t just change how much you read, it also shapes who you are as a reader.
Is Gothenburg actually a reader's paradise? My latest for @artreview.bsky.social

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Popular popular opinion: I seriously wish for a culture with far lesser pictures and videos. Sincerely hope we get to it soon. I used to enjoy watching videos of songs every now and then, and I still look forward to watching movies. But now when everything's a vid, the novelty has worn off.

My favourite Berlin School director. Love Transit and Afire. He uses Franz Rogowoski in the best way possible.

Is Gothenburg a Reader’s Paradise? Anandi Mishra thought she had it good in Delhi

I moved from Delhi to Sweden and realized: your environment doesn’t just change how much you read, it also shapes who you are as a reader.
Is Gothenburg actually a reader's paradise? My latest for @artreview.bsky.social

artreview.com/is-gothenbur...

#Booksky #WritingCommunity #Readersky

A striped cat appears to be “yelling” at a kitten with the exact same coloring. The kitten’s eyes are wide open and their ears pinned back.

you just know somebody’s being called by their full name right now

Living through hot and heavy Delhi summers, it's easy to assume that air conditioning is the pinnacle of human achievement. But then there's the electricity bill, the carbon footprint, the way it isolates, dehydrates. Is there an alternative?
The air cooler!

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Is Gothenburg a Reader’s Paradise? Anandi Mishra thought she had it good in Delhi

Much ado has been made about the reading habits of Indians. When I moved to Sweden in 2024, little did I know how much more I'd end up reading in the Scandinavian country even though I identified as a voracious reader back in Delhi. My column for @artreview.bsky.social
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Air coolers instead of air conditioners? On natural, economical, greener air coolers vs high energy, high maintenance, dirtier cooling of air cons

🚨 wrote about the eternal European summer question: Air coolers or Air conditioners?

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Young pope Leo, undated but he appears to be in his teens or early 20’s

young pope leo looks like a ska scene regular who goes by Upbeat but no one knows his real name

Post the best photo you’ve taken of your pet

to not have to make Instagram reels to promote it

Tipping point?

"New electric cars now cost £42,620 on average, compared with £43,405 for petrol models."

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Birds chirping, rustle of leaves in the gentle breeze, the sound of children kicking ball in the grass, someone close by blasting a venga boys song on a JBL, buzz of trucks loading and unloading at the nearby pizzeria, someone unwittingly talking loudly on the phone… spring sounds as therapy

I would really like to see a "declouding" movement where consumers demand any software that doesn't strictly need to be in the cloud, be downloadable to run locally on their own hardware.

The way that things used to be.

that's an insane screenshot to go with for that article!!!

Pics of airplane ears This is a subreddit for pics of animals with "airplane ears."

An employee at the eye doctor said his day was greatly improved because he overheard me say that there's a subreddit just for cats with airplane ears, so just in case you don't know: there's a subreddit just for cats with airplane ears. www.reddit.com/r/airplaneea...

The Warehouse, in Plain Sight That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.

"Atlas-making is a political project that reveals hidden lines of power. Anybody can do it."

Stunning reportage on the power of communities in the face of the most heinous, inhuman state-sponsored atrocities

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...says the man with the highest net worth on this rock spinning through the void.

Why is it that the most vocal cheerleaders of generative A.I. are always the hackiest motherfreakers around? You expect studio executives to say things like “it’s going to revolutionize content,” and “from a bottom-line standpoint it’s inevitable,” and “I’ve finally found an instrument as cold and empty as myself,” but you’d hope that an artist would have more self-respect.

of course you CAN use AI to "write" your book but you run the risk of a lethally derisive colson whitehead materializing in your office to call you a hacky motherfreaker
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you should discover new music by accident. go to small shows where you haven't heard of most of the artists. dig in the crates of a record store and ask the person working there for a recommendation. ask your friends what's been in their ear recently.