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17 Jul 2025
My full essay on Orbital and hope is up to read on The London Magazine website:
thelondonmagazine.org/articl…
17 Jul 2025
'The toothless, gentle, atheist-but-spiritual style of a book like Orbital falls into the popular bracket of wellbeing literature. It is already a difficult and confusing world, it says. Why should your reading be difficult also?'
@HarrysunSee on Orbital: thelondonmagazine.org/articl…
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A cat accidentally rubs up against a genie lamp and suddenly all surfaces are empty plastic bag.
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Brixton is easily one of the best parts of London. It’s just such a shame about the drunken walk curse they had to put on the tube station. The which-way-am-I-facing spell. The zigzag charm. The Brixton Macarena.
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Jun 4
🚨 NEW: Palantir has signed a multimillion-pound deal with all police forces in England and Wales to run the national firearms database
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I almost choke on a piece of popcorn every single time I go the cinema, and I’ve never once made a noise about it. It’s called self-respect. And forgetting to chew.
went to watch obsession last night. started to choke on a piece of popcorn but didn’t want someone to accuse me of not having theater etiquette so i just died instead
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Welcome to France. It’s 1997 every year. They make the best food in the world and the worst pop music. The supermarket has three aisles just for yoghurt. Everyone smokes and you’ll be shot for apologizing. That racism you can hear is, technically speaking, ‘medieval’.
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May 29
A puff of smoke leaves the Ian Fleming estate. The new 007 has been elected. It’s an XL Bully. “I can’t believe it,” he tells media. “I only wish my mum was here to see.”
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May 21
I mean falling for the very clear bait here - and in fact, why the fuck is any painting selling for almost $100m - but I’ll tell you what. Rothko in real life is like a a personal church.
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May 19
I am seeing a sentiment coming along from people that this AI story means they’re glad Granta has never published them…they really dodged a bullet there…like phew ha ha…
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May 19
I enjoyed this a lot. All you need is surrealism. Or whatever it is John Lennon said.
Apr 20
Now online: Kevin Duong (@ktduong88) on how André Breton triangulated a love relation between surrealism, psychoanalysis, & Marxism.
“Breton would fight for the social revolution to create a future world in which an honest experience of love might be possible.”
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But this is a daft thing to say.
Christopher Nolan says #TheOdyssey has the "original superheroes":
"They are the original superheroes. Even comic book culture, whether you're talking about Marvel or DC or all the rest, a lot of it comes directly from the Homeric Epics. The thing about Homer is, nobody knows if that was a person. Homer in a way is the George Lucas, maybe, of his time… Homer is the Marvel of its day, that's the thing. It's very directly this desire for us to feel or believe Gods could walk amongst us, and I think the modern comic book is kind of our expression of that."
variety.com/2026/film/news/c…
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Whether or not this turns out good, I’ll say that having them all use American accents is the better choice. They should lay it on thicker, even.
The new trailer for Christopher Nolan's ‘THE ODYSSEY’ has been released.
In theaters on July 17.
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Apr 23
Stunner of a last line.
Apr 22
Here's Sophie Heawood's first column, in which she recalls a memorable encounter with a younger man.
the-fence.com/how-do-you-kno…
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Apr 23
Enjoyed this one.
Apr 21
“me and the tree shadow me and the loam me and this little passing pug” —Lily Gabaree
thedriftmag.com/sick/
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os beatles inventaram o sexo e os rolling stones descobriram que dava pra fazer com mulher
Apr 20
os beatles que inventaram o sexo
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Apr 22
A lot of chatter about the big male writers on here - Hemingway, McCarthy, Harold Bloom - seems to appear without anyone bothering to read them. Because they’re all much softer on the page than in the public eye.
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Apr 21
From a month or two ago: my review of Olga Ravn’s The Wax Child in the Decadence issue of The Toe Rag, which you can buy here- thetoerag.com/buy
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Apr 21
First Edna of many, based on this. Spinning about five plates at once here and pulling it off without a sweat.
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Spredging on books for adults is a great sign of things. Personally I can’t wait for them to tape big cartoon lollipops to the covers.
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Mar 24
After seeing the latest in Wuthering Heights and Great Gatsby retellings come out of the microwave recently, this is excellent timing (and a dreamy final line)
Mar 24
When the author of a lucrative series dies, his or her estate will sometimes tap a writer to tie up loose ends—or keep the story going. In this preview from our upcoming issue, J.W. McCormack writes on continuation novels:
thebaffler.com/salvos/nevere…
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Mar 21
Good shit-talking stuff. Should be more of it.
Mar 20
Did you know Cormac McCarthy stopped reading new novels after Infinite Jest and referred to @JoyceCarolOates as "the goggle lady?"
My definitive takedown of Jest, MFAs, and the coinage of a new term "publishing-inudstrial complex" to explain it all :)
unherd.com/2026/03/why-corma…
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