🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Writing is a way of thinking. If you delegate writing to AI, you skip the thinking as well as the writing.

« Shane Haddad is a descendant of Flaubert and Duras and she recounts moments of intimacy with hesitancy, never preaching morality, but rather fluttering between nonchalant panic and sudden, joyous surprise » Marie Darrieussecq in this week’s The TLS the-tls.co.uk/literature/fic…

To celebrate #Bloomsday here’s a photo of Anthony Burgess exploring the ruins of Leopold and Molly Bloom’s house at 7 Eccles Street, Dublin in February 1965.

In some ways, I think Anne has continued the process that Alma Rosé began: she has given these young women back their humanity, rescued them from the unindividuated morass of Auschwitz and given them space to breathe and live.

This is a perfect subject for The New Yorker. They get to cover a modern phenomenon while revelling in their century-old love of umlauts.

What a strange and awful story -

“At a certain point, it’s between you and your conscience. You go as close to the line as your conscience will permit in terms of producing material that pleases you. You’re working at the edge of risk, if you’re lucky.” —Hanif Kureishi buff.ly/VZzuyZ4

I wrote this about the decline of literacy - books are the foundation of serious thought. A society in which nobody reads will be one that soon finds itself unable to think. thetimes.com/comment/column…

'Although they have a role in showing status, Wilson finds that objects are more often used to provide “private feedback” about our memories and relationships.' Miranda France (Miranda France) on objects as emotional anchors the-tls.com/culture/food-d…

"Erasing women and women-specific language and needs based on their sex is not only wrong, but also demeaning, regressive and constitutes one of the worst forms of violence that women and girls can experience," Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls Reem Alsalem told the United Nations Human Rights Council. #HRC59

I love this Hockney quote about drawing, not least because something similar is true of words. The best way to work out what you think is by drafting a piece of writing

Summer Splash: New Free Lido Will Open in East London This Summer timeout.com/london/news/a-…

“I want to get all the content down so that I can then move on to the fun part, which is sorting out the sentences.” This week, we’ve unlocked our Art of Nonfiction interview with Geoff Dyer. buff.ly/1bGNvIx

Paid six-month internship at The Economist, working with on the Britain desk

Stockport punks, 1983, photo by Shirley Baker.

Spotted on the Tube just now: man in mid-20s deeply lost in Canto V of Dante, across the way a woman a few years younger reading Mill on the Floss. Both in hard copy. There is hope!

'Criticism should ‘take part in the work and continue it’, and hence be a work of art in itself.' Jonathan Taylor: Poetry and criticism are forever entwined the-tls.com/literature/lit…

Twenty-four TLS writers share their summer reading the-tls.com/regular-featur…

🎵#Bayeuxscominghome 🎵