Nombrilisme: Thoughts on the Belly-Button
‘Nombrilisme’ (masculine noun, French): an attitude of self-absorption, when a person believes that everything revolves around or relates back to them ‘Se prendre pour le nombril du monde’: to consider oneself as the centre of the world. In his short story The Apologizer, Milan Kundera’s p
The Bees
Poetry: “The bees are going down, you know, it’s a well known fact / statistically but also purely / anecdotally, because the ground is suddenly / pebbled with the dead little things.”
Feeling Blue
Feeling Blue is an upcoming six-part sitcom and profound social commentary on depression and masculinity in the twenty-first century.
A reflection in glass
Fiction: “I mean, anyone who lives in monochrome might be so preoccupied, their mind curling with sepia-tone daydreams and heavy-lidded prayers.”
Glass Ceilings
The masses of LA are not living in Stahl Houses today because the Stahl House was never replicated.
The Aubervilliers teacher
His assailant, he said, was armed with a box-cutter and invoked the Islamic State as he carried out his attack. When he was taken in for questioning, he confessed that he had invented the attack.
Rift Valley
Poetry: “Nothing in the hushed hills, / the mute, grey ascent, to ready us for that / gash of gutted earth.”
The canvas of literature
“Three days after I arrived”, Naomi Alderman recalls, “was the start of the Jewish festival of Succot.” This complicated her start to term, as she wasn’t allowed to do any work other than reading for three days. Combined with the lack of kosher food provided by her college, it all proved s
Of minds and choices
“I threaded my way through a crowd dotted with people who had clearly consumed psychedelics or stimulants immediately prior to the meeting.”