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Sunday, September 29, 2024

Right of Garden Passage - Shakespeare and Freud

The light cannot exist without the darkness


Outdoor Furniture Stores to Turn Your Space Into an Oasis


Valentino’s Jacopo Venturini: ‘We are selling dreams, emotions and entertainment’


 In praise of reference books. The best way to satisfy a young and weird mind’s desire for useless knowledge... more »


Shakespeare and Freud: What is the proper relationship between psychoanalysis and literature?... more »

No-Dig Gardening Masterclass with Charles Dowding

GrowVeg planner

Gauguin’s wild 1888 visit to Arles came to an end when Van Gogh hurled an absinthe glass at him — then came at him with a razor... more »

Garden Gangsta


The inner-city alleys being turned into paradise passages 

  Several of the UK’s northern cities are transforming once neglected passageways into bucolic oases; community spaces filled with urban art, herb gardens — and civic pride




Writing renaissance
Oldest cookbook
Deculturation
HBS drama
The Raphael of Cats
Thom Gunn
Remembering Y2K
James C. Scott
Invention of childhood
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