Chinese spy: *giggling* wow your Ireland's Own collection is so impressive me: don't touch those, I haven't done all the puzzles yet

I'm looking to pass on my three vol set of theories of surplus value. Pristine, unread, no margin notes, for payment I'm looking for a screenshot of a 100e donation to Anera or PCRF or Islamic Relief Ireland or any org offering direct assistance you may be more familiar with

The world is ready for a Bond who has shingles

So funny to see liberal pundits speculating about the Democrats sweeping win ("People were repulsed by ICE"), when half of Americans would vote for Giga Hitler if he promised to lower the cost of living

This is how it feels when you have to take a call when working from home

Sigmund Freud: Hey is it OK if I write up our sessions together as a case study? It'll be completely anonymous. The Rat Man: Sure. What pseudonym were you thinking for me? Freud: Uh, the Normal Guy.

Repeating (as it's going unreported) that novelist China Miéville last night donated his £10k Goldsmiths Prize to the striking staff of Goldsmiths College, and made some sharp comments about the dispute. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/10/16/s...

Staff strike at Goldsmiths is now the longest in UK university history

Students say they are not receiving marks or feedback, as dispute over the institution's restructuring programme has dragged on for 130 days

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RIP Fredric Jameson you would have loved the limited edition Paris Review onesie

every election cycle, the American political system disgorges yet another contemptible freak we all have to know about

It'd be real nice if CHRONOVISOR was released in Europe some day

Stupid, thuggish and barbaric decision from the Home Office.

Verso Books@versobooks.bsky.social · 2w ago

Verso Books condemns the Labour government’s decision to ban one of our leading authors, Andreas Malm, from entering the United Kingdom. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/a...

North American actor pick a foreign language film in the Criterion Closet challenge (Impossible)

Why would she say this

art world satire gf, campus comedy bf

Why would she say this

Tearing up at the pensioner who won 100k on This Morning and said she's going to use some of the money to help a family in Gaza

Found Saddam Hussein hiding in a pear

In Issue Ten we published an interview with Jon Fosse, conducted by Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social. To celebrate Fosse's new novel, Vaim Hotel, (trans. Damion Searls), the interview is now available to read on our website. tolkajournal.org/read-online/... @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

"Lee Chang-Dong... has only made seven features since 1997". Isn't that entirely normal workrate? Making a film every four years, on average, isn't bad for someone who is also a writer.

A perennial question

A perennial question

There’s only one logical way the new season of GIRLS could go: Hannah faces up to her fears and pilots the Eva

8,000 words on Prynne by Iain Sinclair. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

It escaped my notice that the great @tom-drury.bsky.social has a piece to read in Harper's right now It's an excerpt from his new Grouse County novel, West of Loveland - coming soon and I CANNOT WAIT

Harper’s Magazine@harpers.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Later in his room, Rocky prayed that someone would come and take the gun away from the house. He liked to think that the gods of all the religions met regularly and worked together like the Justice League.” buff.ly/3QZG0Ou

Carlow Weather been awful quiet since the data centres got hit

‘He didn’t read for organic unity, and he certainly didn’t read as a formalist. He read for the way philosophy – understood as a vision of human existence – expresses itself through literary form.’ Toril Moi on Fredric Jameson, online early from the next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Toril Moi · Fredric Jameson as Reader: Fredric the Great

Fredric Jameson seemed to me to have read absolutely everything. He was the very antithesis of the intellectual type I...

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How it starts to feel when a phone call goes on for more than two minutes

Reading J. H. Prynne's The White Stones got Ryan Ruby out of a reading slump.

Prynne’s Last Poem by Ryan Ruby

October 7, 2026 – “Prynne never seemed to belong to a bygone era; his poems were always ultracontemporary, unless they were of the future.”

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BREAKING: Rockstar Games announce forthcoming "The Films of Éric Rohmer" Grand Theft Auto VI expansion pack. Missions to include "glimpsing the Green Ray at sunset" and "spending a night at Maud's". More details to follow.