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Dec 1, 2022

Under the Bed

I In the only home I have ever lived in, in the only bedroom I have ever known, sits the bed I have slept in every night since I was twelve years old. My father didn’t approve of spending money. He nailed together the headboard of my parents’ bed and…

Short Story

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Under the Bed
Under the Bed
Short Story

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Oct 1, 2022

Book Review: The Trees — Percival Everett

As much as I like reading, it’s never going to be the first thing my brain wants to do at the end of a long day. Maybe it’s that way for some nerds, but it’s never been that way for me. This is especially true with the type of literary…

Book Review

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Book Review: The Trees — Percival Everett
Book Review: The Trees — Percival Everett
Book Review

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Sep 30, 2022

Book Review: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida — Shehan Karunatilaka

One of the more popular tropes I’m finding in my occasional voyages into literary fiction is the “purgatory journey.” This is nothing new, of course — Dante and the Ancient Greeks were quite into this sort of thing — but it’s definitely had an upsurge of late. Lincoln in the…

Writing

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Book Review: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida — Shehan Karunatilaka
Book Review: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida — Shehan Karunatilaka
Writing

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Sep 20, 2022

Book Review: Oh William! — Elizabeth Strout

Ah! The twee middle class urban novel. I knew it from the minute I set eyes on this book and its cutesy cover design. We would be in comfortable WASPish ennui mode, following a middle-class, middle-aged, middle-weight (for relatability purposes, although the author is always stick thin) woman called something…

Book Review

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Book Review: Oh William! — Elizabeth Strout
Book Review: Oh William! — Elizabeth Strout
Book Review

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Sep 15, 2022

Book Review: Treacle Walker — Alan Garner

It’s that time of year again — the time when I walk into Waterstones and say, “Hi, yes, I used to work here many years ago. You might remember me. Please could I have half price on all six of the books shortlisted for the Booker prize?” And because Waterstones…

Booker Prize

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Book Review: Treacle Walker — Alan Garner
Book Review: Treacle Walker — Alan Garner
Booker Prize

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Aug 18, 2022

Writeable

There are a lot of times when I think to myself that I should write, that I could write, that I ought to write more. There’s something particularly motivating about Hamilton, an impetus double-whammy. Firstly, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s songwriting, all those refrains interwoven in so many combinations, with so many inflections…

Family

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Writeable
Writeable
Family

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Jun 7, 2022

That Other Guy’s Winning

I think one of the reasons why politics in developed “““Western””” economies is so polarised and resentful is because we all think the other side is winning/has won already. I have a strand of thoughts about this, and I’m pretty sure it’ll come across crass and oversimplified, but here goes: …

Society

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That Other Guy’s Winning
That Other Guy’s Winning
Society

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Apr 28, 2022

This is Going to Hurt, Unless You Tell Yourself It Won’t

I’m late to the party with This Is Going to Hurt, but as usual when late to parties, I didn’t regret it. What a fantastic adaptation. Bold, sharp, magnificently acted, edited to the point where the jarring emotional juxtapositions feel somehow coherent, and funnier than anything I’ve seen on the…

TV Series

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This is Going to Hurt, Unless You Tell Yourself It Won’t
This is Going to Hurt, Unless You Tell Yourself It Won’t
TV Series

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Mar 27, 2022

The Best Picture Nominees 2022, Ranked

10. Belfast Following in a long line of cheery, feel-good Hollywood films set amid a backdrop of horrendous human tragedy, Belfast just didn’t do it for me. Whereas the likes of Life is Beautiful or Green Book received more than their fair share of criticism, I haven’t seen Belfast subjected…

Oscars

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The Best Picture Nominees 2022, Ranked
The Best Picture Nominees 2022, Ranked
Oscars

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Mar 9, 2022

Nothing is Safe

Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Ten seconds after I read about Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, fear floods and sense subsides. Though there is no outward reaction, you see it most clearly in the nervous tap of my right leg against the seat of the train…

War

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Nothing is Safe
Nothing is Safe
War

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