‘We take pictures to remember the places we’ve been. Or do we go travelling to take photos?’ Louis rogers on the documentary impulse of travel. granta.com/another-patago…

Late to share but I went to Newport, Rhode Island, to find out what life is like in the crumbling mansions of the 'last bastion of America’s gilded age' for the cover of HTSI ft.com/content/354cb1…

In which Lola somehow avoids using the phrase ‘full beamers’

'At only seventy-four pages, BONSAI seems filled with far more characters, poignant turns, subplots and jokes than it should have room for...' Louis Rogers reviews BONSAI by Alejandro Zambra, tr. megan mcdowell for Literary Review: literaryreview.co.uk/shallow-roots

. Baya Simons on Annie Ernaux’s “compulsive self-revelation” ft.com/content/57973a…

Today at @AASchool 🛝

I went to Trieste for TANK and wrote about James Joyce, Jan Morris, and what we talk about when we talk about “ “liminality”” tankmagazine.com/issue-93/featu…

J.M. Coetzee published a new novel in August — but only in Spanish translation. My latest for the The New Yorker on the greatest living English-language's novelist's campaign against the English language itself: newyorker.com/books/page-tur…

I've just started as Acting Commissioning Editor for arts on the best in the biz, FT Weekend Magazine. I'm looking for pitches for narrative-led longform stories, profiles and essays. If you're a writer with a great idea I'd love to hear from you. Email me at [email protected]

"Moby-Dick is synonymous with the idea of a great big book" – Louis rogers on the body of the novel tankmagazine.com/issue-95/featu…

Anyone who has seen Gboyega Odubanjo since 26th Aug please get in touch with Northamptonshire Police on 101, quoting ref MPD1/2619/23. He’s been missing since Shambala. More details below

Can BBC News (UK) please get involved with spreading the word about this missing writer - well loved in the literary community, who are sharing posts across social media. The police are searching.

Gboyega Odubanjo is still missing, last seen @ShambalaFest Saturday morning. For those able, please print and disseminate these posters, attached, and within the mediapack linked: docs.google.com/document/d/1-j… especially in London or the Northamptonshire area

Gboyega Odubanjo: Family of poet missing after Shambala Festival 'desperate' for help bbc.in/47UxqqY

For Sidecar, Louis Rogers (Louis rogers) on the Argentinian filmmaker Eduardo Williams: 'To recall one of his films is to remember a peculiarly porous attentive state – what you saw mingled with the circumstances of watching and the life around it.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

'It’s not simply that everyday life is Garner’s elected subject; her writing seems to spring authentically from it, as a direct response to living.' Louis Rogers (Louis rogers) on Helen Garner: newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

'Garner at her best, which is almost all of the time, has it both ways: finely wrought, startling sentences that scorch with their unmistakable necessity.' An incisive review of Helen Garner's oeuvre in the @newleftreview. newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…