Books Contents Archive

Are you depressed? Does the reflection of bright objects themselves reflecting brighter objects’ pulsing energies make you cry your face toward the darkening sky? ‘Moonrise’, a poem by Maureen N. McLane: https://t.co/h5NZ73BXMA

"Entire weekends passed before we left the apartment or ate a real dinner, but we studied her photographs more closely now. We invented roles for Natalia in our games: captor, hostage, aunt." https://t.co/2LeD4WMVjk

ICYMI: A look back at @P_Schultheis' review of Deborah Levy's "lively, varied" REAL ESTATE: A LIVING AUTOBIOGRAPHY (@BloomsburyPub): https://t.co/ieCzRLM48A https://t.co/8vyRX57KjR

‘If there was no Chinese world order, and no system to impede legal British trade, and prostration was no more than a negotiable matter of ritual, what was Macartney actually doing in China?’ @daicing on Qing China: https://t.co/NCgwvM2CF6

‘For Barthelme, it wasn’t simply a matter of playing with found forms or language. That was “cheapo surrealism”. Instead his stories explore situations (“The Party”, “Brain Damage”, “City Life”) that are experienced as collage.’ @KasiaBoddy: https://t.co/B1yLjfaCvk

‘It feels like sheer dystopian fantasy, a journey to the end not of the night but of any sort of manageable human world.’ Michael Wood on Céline’s late style: https://t.co/QUDIqwHoD4

"I cannot well repeat how there I entered, / So full was I of slumber at the moment / Because my toddler had kept me up all evening" (via @mcsweeneys) https://t.co/eh8QA9donG

A mysterious receipt, a strict vow of secrecy, family betrayal, and more of the best book deals of the day: https://t.co/wAbluSFqNr

A sneak peek at what's coming up this week: https://t.co/ACV4q0hyv5 https://t.co/h4sbVQSHyG

Today is the LAST DAY to submit to The Commuter! We want to see your best short prose, poetry, and graphic narratives. Submit, submit, submit! https://t.co/K8pNVrQK3T

‘If you get hit by a bus, and it costs thousands to save you (or fail to), both you and the bus driver have made a positive contribution to GDP.’ @GeoffPMann on GDP, green growth and degrowth: https://t.co/nsBoSI5x9n

We love our horse girls, but wolf girls deserve love too! https://t.co/vAW8iY0YJs

‘I remember the caricaturist Mark Boxer telling me that he felt ill-equipped to draw hands, so would frequently solve the problem by having his subjects stuff them into their pockets.’ Julian Barnes at the @NationalGallery: https://t.co/jgA4FtzGmk

‘Reading Lucretius can, at its worst, feel like being badgered by a pushy salesperson, who keeps giving you items to try on until you buy one.’ Robert Cioffi on how the ancient Greeks and Romans viewed the end of the world: https://t.co/z943SUCG0t

'Brutally real, tragically funny' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ If you're in need of a book to get stuck into this summer, look no further than #Watermelon by @MarianKeyes - now just 99p! https://t.co/xbQcesYKOg https://t.co/CQhB9BB91B