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What I’ve been reading (August/September 2025)
Founders, writers and San Francisco in the 90s with Jessica Livingston and Dave Eggers (plus the 80s with Mitch Kapor)
What I’ve been reading (June/July 2025)
It's Asian Alienation Month with Yoko Tawada (Japan/Germany), Han Kang (South Korea) and Ocean Vuong (Vietnam/USA), with a brief French detour facilitated by Catherine Deneuve
What I’ve been reading (in early 2025)
Celebrating Fitzcarraldo Editions and 100 years of The Magic Mountain with Olga Tokarczuk, Colm Tóibín and Thomas Mann (duh)
What I’ve been reading in May 2021
Elena Ferrante on writing for the drawer
What I’ve been reading in April 2021
Cal Newport on the Hyperactive Hive Mind, with a sidebar on Fred Brooks and the Mythical Man-Month
What I’ve been reading in March 2021
Margarette Lincoln on the hip baristas in London of the 17th century
What I’ve been Reading in February 2021
Abortive reads with Paul Morely (too much rock criticisims) and with Houellebecq (too much provocation)
What I’ve been reading (January 2021)
Reckoning with imperial pasts (with Priya Satia) and with my own so-called immigration background (with me)
What I’ve been reading (December 2020)
Wagnerism fallout: Classics by Joseph Conrad and Willa Cather