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In the final years of South African Apartheid, the white government decided it must 1) overthrow the government of Angola 2) install a puppet regime in Namibia 3) attack Zimbabwe 4) attack Botswana 5) attack Zambia in order to survive. This did not work

We are thrilled to announce our Summer 2025 Book Club selection: “Fresh, Green Life” by sebastian castillo. Join the LARB Book Club on July 30 for a compulsively readable journey through philosophy, literature, and the antihero’s pursuit of self-improvement. lareviewofbooks.org/event/larb-boo…

every great writer has at some point said some my chemical romance type shit—kafka, bolaño, pessoa, they all did it. which i take as a flag of permission: you can indulge in your emo tendencies when the time calls for it, it's good for you

i went to my first concert twenty years ago today with my friend drew. his older sister and her girlfriend drove us. they had never heard of any of the bands, but were happy to drive to the beach

imagined a youtube video "OBAMA first reaction to 60-hour audiobook of The Aesthetics of Resistance" with obama doing a mind-blown soyface in the thumbnail

went out dancing with my girlfriend and her cousin last night. we were all low energy upon arrival to the club-bar so i bought us three espresso martini's. $56 dollars — this, in god's philadelphia

separated from birth??

on the left my father and i relaxing at home in caracas in the distant past and on the right my father and i enjoying the streets of sunny madrid in the more recent past, while i was unknowingly infecting him with covid

dumb thing about the streaming era is the sheer amount of material not available through 'legitimate' means. want to watch some sirk movies this week—neither written on the wind or all that heaven allows are streaming anywhere. both of them star rock hudson, they are not obscure!

a truly wonderful and generous review by the one and only crow ❤️ honored to have such a keen reader

Also, if anyone would be interested in reviewing either of these titles, I'll be happy to provide a digital proof with a physical copy upon publication. There's nothing like reviewing a poet's incredible first book:

I’m a Sebastian stan

this exact moment in “arrow through me” is in my opinion one of the greatest things in all of recorded music

when puff daddy changed his name to p. diddy in 2001—it was announced in the newspaper—my grandparents were incensed by the news. they thought it was an appalling display of vanity, and to read it in the newspaper

"Top of some mornings to you" — the vague Irishman

learned franz schubert was 5’1”. i wonder how often he asked his friends to get something for him off the top shelf. probably a number of times