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Wednesday 19 Nov, Dublin
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Adorable animal-themed public art on the NYC subway (5th Ave & 59th Street N/R/W station) by artist Ann Schaumburger to start off an early Sunday morning www.mta.info/agency/arts-...
November 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Paul Celan, Snowpart; tr. Pierre Joris
October 23, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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I like to read writing by humans because humans die. A writer used part of her life to write and I’m using part of mine to read it. The finitude is key to it being an art.
October 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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London hair salon after hours, each station equipped with a television, each depicting scene after scene of Gaza now, rubble and ruin.
October 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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‘It is peculiar, to say the least, that Israel is being given, in a “peace deal”, land that it has not managed to capture militarily.’

@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
Selma Dabbagh | Knowledge of the Relevant Facts
Israel has assassinated a record number of Palestinian journalists, refused to allow international reporters to enter...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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The Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, known for his postmodern, dystopian novels, is the winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize for literature: on.ft.com/4oeJJFX
October 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in Literature!

Read his interview with Hari Kunzru in The Yale Reviewon apocalypse, art, and the urgency of the present—and his short story “An Angel Passed Above Us,” also published in TYR.

yalereview.org/article/l%C3...
László Krasznahorkai on hope, apocalypse, and his new short story
Hari Kunzru interviews the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai.
yalereview.org
October 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Krasznahorkai has said of his work: ‘You will never go wrong anticipating doom in my books, any more than you’ll go wrong in anticipating doom in ordinary life.’

In 2012, we recorded a 94-minute conversation with Colm Tóibín for our Bookshop podcast:

www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...
László Krasznahorkai in conversation with Colm Tóibín | London Review Bookshop
Our first Literary Friendships event brought together Colm Tóibín with his friend László Krasznahorkai. Described by the Guardian as a ‘visionary writer’,…
www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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September 29, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Here are all the swans.
September 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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The picture we've all been waiting for: #AlaaIsFree

h/t: Mohamed Elbaqer
September 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Always be a poet, even in prose.

Baudelaire
September 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Agnes Martin
September 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Three hummingbirds at the feeder. Every day they helped me.

Some large beauty.
September 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Happy Birthday, Doctor Williams:
September 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.
September 17, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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John Ashbery
September 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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The Israeli military raided “No Other Land” co-director Basel Adra’s home in the Occupied West Bank, attempting to run over his brother with an all-terrain vehicle before physically attacking him and his family.
No Other Land Director’s Home Raided by Israeli Military
The incident apparently followed an attack by Israeli settlers on Basel Adra’s land in the Occupied West Bank.
hyperallergic.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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One of the greatest.
September 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today
September 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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September 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM