Dream of an interview by Leo Robson with Bill Buford on his seminal work of immersive journalism, Among The Thugs, "the theatre of sport", long form non fiction in 1980s... www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/07...
The Theater of Sport: Bill Buford Revisits Among the Thugs by Leo Robson
July 29, 2026 – “I kept getting hit by beer cans.”
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Wonder if I'm the only person equally as excited by Durutti Column and Ariana Grande same day album releases. Cool guy
Missing the zeitgeist by weeks but... typical of The Bear to serve self-mythologising mess for five eps then pull it together for affecting end to final season. Show infuriates/moves me, forever has me saying "behind" in the kitchen. Every second counts
With the longlist appearing in July and the winner in November the Booker Prize is now a four month event, it's in-play, as it were, for a third of the year. What does this mean? I don't know but it seems notable that it's growing
Almost no one making movies understands us as a species as much as he does and I’ll be bereft when he won’t be around anymore showing us who we are!
Mike Leigh Says ‘Tender Loving Care’ Is Most Likely His Final Film Due to Illness
Mike Leigh tells IndieWire that his upcoming film 'Tender Loving Care' is most likely his last movie.
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Great to see first @thebookerprizes.com nominations for Gwendoline Riley and Luke Kennard!
The Booker Prizes@thebookerprizes.com · last wk.‘We are confident that our longlist of books has something for everyone’ We are delighted to reveal the Booker Prize 2026 longlist. Huge congratulations to the authors who make up this year's Booker Dozen. ➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2026
Funny how when I go to the Basque Country and Catalonia I think the separatists are badasses whereas when I was growing up in Cornwall I always thought they were dorks
Those people who pretend they see signs of spring in January and try to wish away winter. That's me now re. the end of summer and start of autumn
No way should Patti and Rosalia be apologising to those whining thugs www.euronews.com/culture/2026...
Boycotts and apologies: Argentina row over Rosalía and Patti Smith after World Cup
Messages of support for Spain from Rosalía and Patti Smith sparked a backlash in Argentina after the World Cup final, with online criticism, boycott calls and a cancelled tribute concert.
euronews.com
Ice cream industry needs Coke 0 level game-changing intervention to ensure survival. Buy one scoop on sunny day now and within seconds you've got sticky melted mess on your fingers. We'll give up on ic unless someone can invent non or slow melting option. Am speaking as former vendor
Eduardo Chillida's Comb of the Wind sculptures in San Sebastian. I've wanted to see these since reading an essay in Oof Magazine about Chillida's work (and his brief time as a goalkeeper for Real Sociedad). Well worth the wait and the trek and getting lightly sprayed by the sea
De Kooning 1937 study for a mural he developed as an employee of the federal Works Progress Administration. so many essential C20 artists were federal employees state capacity includes cultural production, we can have nice things, pass it on
Went to see this doc after reading this excellent review. By now I'm used to walking out of cinemas - after Hind, No Other Land, The Encampments - asking "How is it possible we let this happen?" But it never loses its power and never should www.ft.com/content/57f6...
Life Support film review — Gaza hospital documentary is hard to watch but essential
The experiences of volunteer doctors treating civilians are the basis for a powerful and harrowing film
ft.com
Bought a newspaper and, in spite of having a piece in it, enjoyed reading v much
Last couple of years I've been banging on about Munir Hachemi's novel Living Things from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social. For this week's @ftweekend.com I reviewed Hachemi's latest, The Mulai, which is again translated by Julia Sanches www.ft.com/content/dfbd...
The Mulai — an extraplanetary experiment in language and identity
Munir Hachemi’s playful, hedonistic novel on descendants of colonisers from Earth offers a daring exercise in translation
ft.com
Last couple of years I've been banging on about Munir Hachemi's novel Living Things from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social. For this week's @ftweekend.com I reviewed Hachemi's latest, The Mulai, which is again translated by Julia Sanches www.ft.com/content/dfbd...
The Mulai — an extraplanetary experiment in language and identity
Munir Hachemi’s playful, hedonistic novel on descendants of colonisers from Earth offers a daring exercise in translation
ft.com
" You might think that his noisome self-pity would turn off some of his supporters, but despite the occasional apostrophe to stoicism and virility, most modern reactionaries traffic in imagined victimhood." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
James Butler | Foul Means
The dodgy financing, the undeclared cash and the association with a flagrant crook could permanently tarnish Farage’s...
lrb.co.uk
Farage's desperate tirade was reminder of how central self-pity is to far right politics. A man whose entire purpose is to create division complaining about threats of violence, jesus wept
Belgium have always been a tedious bunch of underachievers but tonight I will be rooting for them. Meanwhile, I hope we get to see Bardem, Cruz and Rosalia at this Spain game too. La Roja defo win the World Cup of coolest famous fans
Ahead of the big match at the Azteca, a piece of Mexico’s footballing heritage & its British connections. This car park in the mountain town of Real del Monte was the site of Mexico’s first football match, played by Cornish migrants, who came to revive the local silver mines in the 1800s.
For this week's @ftweekend.com I went to Zurich to interview Swiss novelist Christian Kracht and lose to him at chess as.ft.com/r/26cbfad6-7...
Swiss novelist Christian Kracht: ‘I decided not to be a cynic any more’
With his breakthrough hit ‘Eurotrash’ set to appear on stage and screen, and new novel ‘Air’ out this month, the one-time enfant terrible is conquering the English-speaking world
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Unexpectedly enjoyed The Invite v much, although could probably have been 10 minutes shorter if only because squirming in my seat for that long is bad for my back
For this week's @ftweekend.com I went to Zurich to interview Swiss novelist Christian Kracht and lose to him at chess as.ft.com/r/26cbfad6-7...
Swiss novelist Christian Kracht: ‘I decided not to be a cynic any more’
With his breakthrough hit ‘Eurotrash’ set to appear on stage and screen, and new novel ‘Air’ out this month, the one-time enfant terrible is conquering the English-speaking world
as.ft.com
very excited to announce that we are running the bookstall at taylor swift's wedding. and more excited still to announce that the bookstall will be located in a lifesize replica of the bookshop itself, erected in the heart of madison square gardens