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Un oscuro día de justicia, Rodolfo Walsh
Saturday 21 February, 7pm (GMT), online
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Why bother?
To quit, to keep going, to take a break
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The 2026 reading list
On violence
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The comfort of doubt
On AI and "credulous disbelief"
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Out of time
A hyperbolic dystopian rant
Dec 17, 2025
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Five steps to finishing every manuscript
On the small habits that bring writing to completion
Dec 9, 2025
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State of the word
On vanished literary shitstorms, certified-human literature, and returning to my mother tongue
Dec 3, 2025
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陰翳礼讃, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (In Praise of Shadows; Edward G. Seidensticker and Thomas J. Harper, tr.)
December 16, 7pm (GMT), online
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If you talked to yourself and no one was listening, would you keep talking?
On writing as a form of self-location (and very little else)
Nov 26, 2025
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The quiet insanity of everyday life
The realisation hit me when I was back home for two weeks earlier this year: normality is a form of insanity.
Nov 18, 2025
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Reading César Aira
Or how to renew one's faith in literature
Nov 12, 2025
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Losing a notebook in a shitty café
And what writing loses by existing
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