Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
without a call to violence, this is fantasy
Tag: philosophy
Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
If, like me, you’re a wanky middle class type who swans around with people who read books FOR FUN, thenContinue Reading
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
im blue abadadee abadie
The Violet Hour by Katie Roiphe
All Men Must Die, innit?
Specimen Days by Walt Whitman
The life and memories of Walt Whitman, focusing on war and nature.
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.
A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
Love is not the preserve of the randy, love is not just something that happens with pants off or about to be off…
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
What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy
The intellectual and emotional vigour with which I’ve approached What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy has left me bawling in the street,Continue Reading
The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
This is a late novella of Tolstoy’s, and one famous for espousing a narrative rooted in his late-life, anti-sexuality, opinions.Continue Reading
The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand
As many of you may have noticed, after the UK recently democratically elected a right-wing government, I shaved off myContinue Reading
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch is one of the handful of writers who I return to with regular irregularity. Like Graham Greene, VirginiaContinue Reading
How To Use Your Enemies by Baltasar Gracián
I decided to read another one of the tiny little Penguin Classics. This one, How To Use Your Enemies byContinue Reading
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre is another one of those hip, nihilistic-type novelists than whiney, depressive young men read in-between bouts of binge-drinkingContinue Reading
The Chairs Are Where the People Go by Misha Glouberman with Sheila Heti
The Chairs Are Where The People Go is a strange book, and a highly-acclaimed one. It’s semi-written by Sheila Heti, authorContinue Reading
Swann’s Way (À la recherche du temps perdu 1) by Marcel Proust
I’m writing this in the beautiful Spanish Pyrenees, having spent a day doing little more than reading Proust and lookingContinue Reading
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
I’ve never read much philosophy. Technically JUST Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman. So, for me, reading Friedrich Nietzsche’sContinue Reading
Candide by Voltaire
I’ve somehow gotten into a reading-in-translation rut. I’m going to snap out of, particularly after reading Voltaire’s tiresome and OLD Candide. IContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 