Can the monster speak? by Paul B. Preciado
arguments to make the world better in language that can only make it worse
Tag: essay
Do Every Thing Wrong!: XXXTentacion Against The World by 😇 Jarett Kobek 😇
an extensive discussion re the weighty themes raised by this book
small white monkeys by Sophie Collins
serious, excellent, short book on trauma
Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
speculative short essay that proposes the historic existence of shame-free desire
Pissing Figures 1280–2014 by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn
mostly fun book on peeing in art with a very off-colour digression
Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire by Max Haiven
palm oil as microcosm of the mess that is capitalism
The Experimentalists by Joe Darlington
the limits + importance of language (cw: suicide ideation)
On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky
more anarchism on the blog thank you for reading
The End: Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters by Katie Goh
great essay on the end of the world in film & lit
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings by Nellie Bly
scott reads a collection of writing from a trailblazing lady gonzo journalist!
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Library of America, 1998)
james baldwin is great; vaccines are also great
Rhinoceros by Luke Thompson
small post on a great non-fiction text
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART THREE)
i cannot read myself happy
50 Words on Each of the Essays in Joan Didion’s Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Yes, it’s here, the new (new?) Joan Didion, so to celebrate I’m going to give a tiny tiny tiny commentContinue Reading
who we’re reading when we’re reading murakami by David Karashima
an excellent book about books
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
well, it’s a “classic” and now i’ve read it
New Model Island by Alex Niven
england is dead and it owes u no living
Sharks, Death, Surfers by Melissa McCarthy
lovely object with an essay on more than three things
Lost Time by Józef Czapski
a touch of proust
This Little Art by Kate Briggs
a wonderful, unpretentious, essay on translation
Queen Mob’s Teahouse: Teh Book edited by Russell Bennetts
some inevitably biased hagiography
The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
an excellent essay on ethics
Limbo by Dan Fox
how limbo can you go?
Mixed-Race Superman by Will Harris
glorious, wonderful, contemporary non-fiction
So Far From God by Veronica Gonzalez Peña
phenomenal essay on Mexican corruption
Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
Teju Cole Me By Your Name
Africa’s Tarnished Name by Chinua Achebe
a bit of African history and more white opinions on racism #facepalm #alwayspublish
Hold Tight by Jeffrey Boakye
i’m looking tired but feeling great
Notes From No Man’s Land by Eula Biss
great essay collection… from america
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
Wonderful, massive, beautiful, biased.
In the Company of Ghosts: The Poetics of the Motorway edited by Alan Corkish
driving myself crazy / reading books about the motorway
Nicotine by Gregor Hens
If Gregor Hens can give up smoking, I can give up booze.
in print alert / in paper print / paper print alert / in paper alert
read all about bs johnson – like this blog but in a book
White Girls by Hilton Als
Off the booze (again), I enjoy a book but despair of life.
Trump & Me by Mark Singer
Trump cannot and will not be ignored.
Useful Work v. Useless Toil by William Morris
Morris is a dream-weaving Corbynista, whose acknowledgement of a sad truth mis-sees it as a solvable problem.
Consider the Lobster And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
David bloody Foster bloody Wallace…
The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
A lot of people don’t read poetry. A lot of people who read a lot of books, don’t read poetry. AContinue Reading
On the Value of Literature by Karl Ove Knausgaard
What is the point of literature? What is the point of life? Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of the hugely acclaimed MyContinue Reading
Football by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Fitzcarraldo Editions is fast becoming my favourite publishing house. Simon Critchley’s Notes on Suicide was one of the best books IContinue Reading
Shaking Hands with Death by Terry Pratchett
When I was young it was normal practice for supermarkets to fill the spaces around the tills – where peopleContinue Reading
The thing about life is that one day you’ll be dead by David Shields
David Shields’ The thing about life is that one day you’ll be dead manages to be simultaneously heart-breakingly depressing whilstContinue Reading
Working the Room by Geoff Dyer
As often happens with essay collections (particularly ones read for the writer’s personality rather than his or her topics), WorkingContinue Reading
On Going To The Football
Last Saturday I did something utterly unprecedented and attended a professional football match. It feels like it happened ages ago,Continue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 