"I'd totally have sex with that guy if he roared his engine louder!" -nobody

being already very stout, he wished to become obese enough to be certain of not being called up should there ever be a war

Philosophers and phenomenologists who work on love, sexuality, and everything in-between - please check out this CFA for an event I'm super excited to be organising in Copenhagen in November! philevents.org/event/show/110… Phenomenological Workshop on Love and Sexuality 💕 🫶 🫦

I asked ChatGPT to list 19th c woman French novelists, as my PhD database lacked women. It found me Lucie Delarue-Madrus, but just brazenly made up the name of a novel, “La Femme dans la lune.” Then it found Valentine de Saint-Point, “Les Hauts fourneaux” (also totally made up!)

I've written my first piece for @lrb. It's about Spotify – how it works, what it wants, and how it's changed the way we make and listen to music lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/…

I have always wondered this.

Interview passionnant lemonde.fr/sciences/artic…

Two things I love about this: - when all goes to shit and no other apology will cut it, a proper, handwritten note to appear more tender and closer to your reader, just like when you break your aunt’s vase - the French immediately start interpreting the note using graphology

beyond the sea, behind a line of woods, began another sea roseate with the light of the setting sun, which was, in fact, the sky

More nonmotorised hospital vehicules coming soon 🚲

France's ban on domestic flight routes where a train under 2.5 hours is available took effect today. It makes sense (it was absurd for such short flights to exist), but it's important to keep in mind it will make almost no difference to the climate. energymonitor.ai/sectors/transp…

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Devastating work by Reuters reuters.com/investigates/s… 😢👏

I wrote this tiny piece about the kiosque in the Buttes Chaumont in Paris euromanticism.org/temple-de-la-s…

Milan Kundera died on Tuesday. His writing meant so much to me as a young person and Emmanuel College, Cambridge (thank you!) gave me some money in 2010 to follow his francophone ‘traces’ to Prague, interviewing some people and writing this about his ‘cycle français’ medium.com/@joannabeaufoy…

This London Review of Books article about peatlands and environment writing is so good lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/…

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