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Issue 13: Bukowski, Knox, and 'authorities'

'How can Proust change your life? Try reading him, for a start.'

Issue 12: various books, being argumentative, caffeine

'Smug, rich and inert, we fall below the means test for pity.'

Issue 11: does reading have an empathy problem?

It’s been theorised at many points, that art – and in particular, reading fiction – can help to develop increased empathy.

Issue 10: can we still read?

Previously, the bevy of bright-screened distractions which Silicon Valley cooked up have carried only the ‘mere’ risk of distraction. However, LLM usage presents something qualitatively different.

Issue 9: Lilac Cabs and Voice Matching

'... to read carefully, and not to be satisfied with a superficial understanding of a book.'

Issue 8: rewriting and agency

'My heavenly favourite, I'll come straight out with it: I should have taken a paring knife and incised you like a sore in a claw horn...'