Bodi Tribe not Bondi one - Cromwell's prophecy

I was in the lava. It scorched my skin and melted my flesh. I couldn’t run or hide. The drafts were due and I was forced to sit there and write through it.

~ LUCY COLEMAN

"Why fight the labyrinth? Follow it, for once. Don't worry, let the streets decide your journey for you, rather than the other way round. Learn to wander, to dawdle. Lose your bearings. Just drift." 

--Tiziano Scarpa, from Venice Is a Fish

List of entertainers who died during a performance

A "ghost" has been spotted in The Rocks, Sydney – and it was captured on film

The Ethiopian tribe where big is definitely beautiful: Bodi men compete to be the fattest in the village by drinking a gruesome mixture of blood and milk

        Venice

 The danger of decadence is also its value. We need more of it aeon 

Are you a precrastinator? The opposite of procrastinating has its downsides Guardian

The banker who tricked Tiso and sent three billion crowns to rebels

Cromwell's prophecy

Elephant names
Tina Brown on Martin Amis
Valley of the books
Chinese keyboard
Literary treasures
Patriotic exercise
Long audiobooks
Professor and pornographer
Divas
Notorious pest
Drama at Penguin Random House
Cromwell's prophecy
Alice Munro, R.I.P.
Lauren Michele Jackson
Plant intelligence
End of reading?
Global entropy
Claire Messud
War of words
John Guillory
Homepages
Eileen Myles
Backstories
New Yorker succession
Book thieves
Emily Oster
Helen Vendler, R.I.P.
Architectural gifts
Daniel Dennett, R.I.P.
Writing in China
Jameson at 90
Why philosophy?
Liberalism
Vinson Cunningham
The Diggers
Goodbye New York
'Pluralism'
Death and typos
Ellies
Small press collapse
Sun dimming
End of language learning
Borrowed titles
Easter Island
Marjorie Perloff, R.I.P.
n+1 turns 20
Barry Beckham
Frans de Waal, R.I.P.
Flaubert's pen
Dishonesty expert
Silver linings
Bad tech books
Sparta
Citation cartels
Becca Rothfeld
Rachel Cusk
Science detective
Neanderthal portraits
Brutalism
Cooking with Kafka
Memory machines
Washington books
Westarctica
Lucy Sante
On hedonism
Astrological errors
J.G. Ballard
How the codpiece flopped
Tortured poets
Gordon Rogoff