So looking forward to discussing creativity and care with brilliant Marianne Brooker & Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou at Brick Lane Bookshop on May 9th at 7pm.
Would love you to join us please

BREAKING: University College London (UCL) has begun an encampment on campus for Gaza.

UCL is the alma mater of the late poet and academic Refaat Alareer.

Key demands from students include divesting from “Israeli war crimes” and pledge to rebuild Gaza’s universities.

I interviewed Sheila Heti for PORT Magazine and she was generous and wise and fun. We talked about her desire to be a writer, alphabetising her life, and always thinking about… a guy port-magazine.com/issue-34/insis…

literally crying in the club (my office)

Think of the children! No, not those children. No, not them, either. No,

Presumably his role was that he made a commitment that Declan Rice would stay at West Ham

Here outside Downing Street to say Refugees Welcome.
Anyone can be a refugee.
Here in memory of my grandparents who came to this country to seek safety in 1939.

Paul Auster as a student participating in the 1968 occupation of Columbia University, as seen in Peter Whitehead's The Fall (1969).

safe travels

May! I came home to the best post. Thanks so much, Clare Bogen 💙

The observable universe by Heather McCalden
One my favourite books of the year so far from ⁦Fitzcarraldo Editions⁩ for lovers of Sebald kluge Kinsky winstonsdad.wordpress.com/2024/05/01/the…

Rachel Corrie’s words have been beating in my mind like a constant drum this past week

Amidst police violence at Columbia, CUNY and UCLA, the news that my friend Paul Auster has died. In 1968 he was one of the Columbia student occupiers, fleetingly captured by British filmmaker Peter Whitehead in a documentary called The Fall