Issue 20: Knausgaard, arguments, Substack
As far as I can see, digital writing platforms have still failed to answer the simple and essential question of phone-app reading, and they won’t be the ‘disruptors’ they think are, until they do.
Issue 19: The Coin, Zaza in China, inauthenticity.
...most questions we encounter are either too big or too small to say anything interesting about.
Issue 18: Lincoln in the Bardo, Joyce’s notebooks, tragedy
‘Desire is the feeling which urges us to go to something and loathing is the feeling which urges us to go from something.'
Issue 17: The Leveret; reading fiction; containers
Why read fiction? As in, why bother? Especially when it comes to ‘hard’ novels (serious-complicated-posh-literary novels). If someone who only reads Simon Sinek or Mark Manson asks you at a party, what’s the point in reading Proust, what should you say?
Issue 16: The Make-Believe, Odyssey, Options
'Every gesture I make is part of a complex code. Everything is part of the ritual.'