My statement on what's unfolding in Los Angeles.

If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487

Nicholas Royle collects books. He also writes books about them. His next title, “Finders, Keepers,” focuses not on the books but on the things tucked inside. A rail ticket. A page from a London guidebook. A letter. All clues to the lives of past readers. finebooksmagazine.com/issue/collecto…

Not implausible as Fergusson had a relationship with Anne Estelle Rice, who painted what is probably the most famous portrait of Mansfield (and which I saw in Auckland last year)

vintage and antique love letters

A few years ago, Catherine Lacey emailed me and we talked about what it meant for a book to be dangerous. We continued that conversation for BLANK Dirt in honor of her new book THE MÖBIUS BOOK, out today: dirt.fyi/article/2025/0…

Pamela Anderson for Architectural Digest (2025)

ingrid bergman transporting her twin daughters in 1952 happy birthday to isabella and isotta rossellini 🩷

Jacqueline Harpman’s speculative fiction gives us the conditions of a world with no time, no future, no inhabited duration. And Ros Schwartz’s translation is breathtaking: each line so perfectly carved to limit what can be felt. A must-read.

They didn't mince words in 17th century advice columns. From the Athenian Mercury for the 10th February 1694.

from my essay on the political space-time of the short story Literary Hub. it's the intro to the excellent 22 Fictions: New Writing from Desperate Literature & Brick Lane Bookshop (has left, on bluesky) edited by Kate Ellis & Robert Loyko-Greer & published yesterday! read it here: lithub.com/less-matters-m…

The cover of Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s YOUR NAME HERE is also your first taste of the remarkable, shapeshifting novel that awaits you.

The Mammies for Trans Rights at guests of @presidentirl at Áras an Uachtaráin today.

In Jesse Ball’s Series III edition, THE HISTORY OF THE DOLLS AND WHAT THEY DID, young playmates Vivian and Abigail enact a toy war of feminine terror. Stories have histories and actions consequences, in the world of children, and urgently, beyond it. hanumaneditions.com/books/history-…

Oh wow! I’m on the cover of this week’s The TLS !! I’ve reviewed a terrific trio of novels about the ennui and perils of adolescence by Oliver Lovrenski (trs Nichola Smalley) John Patrick McHugh & Linn Ullmann (trs Martin Aitken).

This was supposed to be her espresso

To the dozens of Christian Zionists in our inbox objecting to our children’s book “Human Rights” by Yayo Herrero, supposedly because it includes ‘deeply antisemitic material,’ have you considered that maybe an illustration of the Palestinian flag is not antisemitic material

Online now, in print this weekend: my review of Recommended! Nicola Wilson’s absorbing & stimulating study of the Book Society, 1929-1969 - the UK’s first celebrity book club ⁦The Observer New Review⁩ ⁦The Observer⁩ The original book influencers | observer.co.uk/culture/books/…

I was shocked and offended by the lack of writing by women offered on my Eng lit degree course (1988-91)

In popular culture, menopause is typically associated with hot flushes. In our Menopause: What's Changed? exhibition, we invite visitors to drop a pebble if they experience any of these symptoms. And it turns out, hot flushes are much less common than brain fog or mood symptoms!