Hello friends, This the last READ.LOOK.THINK. for a bit. READ. “…people turn away from us and refuse to engage. But we react differently to being froze…

Dear friends, Here is a new edition of RLT, still experimenting with how to lay it out. Thank you for the feedback on the last one. READ. The most spec…

Hello, I’m doing this edition a little sooner, slightly more slapdash than usual, and here on “Substack.” I hope it works out, and that you enjoy it! T…

READ: “Suddenly I heard Virginia’s voice calling to me from the sitting room window: ‘Hitler is making a speech.’ I shouted back, ‘I shan’t come. I’m p…

READ: “In the following months, the author invited me to attend his various lectures and readings around town. I heard him talk about the idea of the p…

“The result of the referendum was a transfer of angry feelings from many leavers, those who had been economically and socially squeezed, to remainers. …

READ: How to kill your envy. | The nadir: a second birth story / “It feels like we are going into this alone, but I don’t mind, because I don’t need th…

READ: The last Swiss finishing school. | No Makeup, by Sharon Olds. | No one wants to hear the truth. | Meaghan Daum’s affair with the intellectual dar…

This interview with Viv Albertine from punk band The Slits made me immediately buy her two books. Both are great but To Throw Away Unopened is some kin…

READ: Japan’s Rent-a-Family industry. | Obviously I will watch it but I’m worried about how the Patrick Melrose novels will translate on TV. (How Edwar…

READ: How do we write now? | “[Penelope] Fitzgerald was fifty-eight when her first book was published. Her whole life, she was just as smart, just as c…

READ: “Faced with a woman’s story, we’re overtaken with the swift taxonomic impulse an amateur astronomer feels on spotting Sirius: “There it is!” he s…