Peter Kravitz
@peterkravitz.bsky.social
Couples, individual & trauma psychotherapist in Edinburgh. Climate grief, poetry relief.
Editor: The Picador Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction. Shakespeare for everything & nothing.
(And my Great Aunt Fanny ran The Vegetarian Hotel in the Catskills.)
Editor: The Picador Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction. Shakespeare for everything & nothing.
(And my Great Aunt Fanny ran The Vegetarian Hotel in the Catskills.)
At some point we are going to have an opportunity to press Restart. A fine place to start to regenerate civil society would be with the principles outlined by Ghada Hatem-Gantzer, founder of MAISON DES FEMMES. There are now 31 of these:
www.lamaisondesfemmes.fr
www.lamaisondesfemmes.fr
January 21, 2026 at 1:31 PM
At some point we are going to have an opportunity to press Restart. A fine place to start to regenerate civil society would be with the principles outlined by Ghada Hatem-Gantzer, founder of MAISON DES FEMMES. There are now 31 of these:
www.lamaisondesfemmes.fr
www.lamaisondesfemmes.fr
Low price
High art
And this from The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht:
“Food comes first, then morals"
(“Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral")
High art
And this from The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht:
“Food comes first, then morals"
(“Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral")
January 20, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Low price
High art
And this from The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht:
“Food comes first, then morals"
(“Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral")
High art
And this from The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht:
“Food comes first, then morals"
(“Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral")
And Typewronger Books do this at their shop on Elm Row, Edinburgh
January 17, 2026 at 9:21 AM
And Typewronger Books do this at their shop on Elm Row, Edinburgh
Still a few tickets left for his 4 hour epic ‘For Philip Guston’ in London this Sunday. I’ll be on my way from Scotland…
And the great Sheffield label
www.anothertimbre.com
are making his music available and accessible like it’s never been.
Happy 100th Morty
www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/cla...
And the great Sheffield label
www.anothertimbre.com
are making his music available and accessible like it’s never been.
Happy 100th Morty
www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/cla...
January 15, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Still a few tickets left for his 4 hour epic ‘For Philip Guston’ in London this Sunday. I’ll be on my way from Scotland…
And the great Sheffield label
www.anothertimbre.com
are making his music available and accessible like it’s never been.
Happy 100th Morty
www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/cla...
And the great Sheffield label
www.anothertimbre.com
are making his music available and accessible like it’s never been.
Happy 100th Morty
www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/cla...
Staggering middle stanza from Anne Carson touches on right now…
December 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Staggering middle stanza from Anne Carson touches on right now…
She’d forgive you! It’s Agnes Owens’ centenary in May 2026 and there’s going to be reissues of her Collected Stories and her o/p Collected Novellas. Her archive has also now found a home at the Alasdair Gray archive in Glasgow
@agrayarchive.bsky.social
@aowensarchive.bsky.social
@agrayarchive.bsky.social
@aowensarchive.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 7:08 AM
She’d forgive you! It’s Agnes Owens’ centenary in May 2026 and there’s going to be reissues of her Collected Stories and her o/p Collected Novellas. Her archive has also now found a home at the Alasdair Gray archive in Glasgow
@agrayarchive.bsky.social
@aowensarchive.bsky.social
@agrayarchive.bsky.social
@aowensarchive.bsky.social
Berlin writer Mathilde Montpetit today on Soutine’s still lifes:
tinyurl.com/dfc5uxjc
‘A friend later told the art critic Pierre Courthion that when he was trying to explain the specific magic of a Rembrandt, “he entered into a state of overexcitement that looked more like an angry outburst”’
tinyurl.com/dfc5uxjc
‘A friend later told the art critic Pierre Courthion that when he was trying to explain the specific magic of a Rembrandt, “he entered into a state of overexcitement that looked more like an angry outburst”’
December 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Berlin writer Mathilde Montpetit today on Soutine’s still lifes:
tinyurl.com/dfc5uxjc
‘A friend later told the art critic Pierre Courthion that when he was trying to explain the specific magic of a Rembrandt, “he entered into a state of overexcitement that looked more like an angry outburst”’
tinyurl.com/dfc5uxjc
‘A friend later told the art critic Pierre Courthion that when he was trying to explain the specific magic of a Rembrandt, “he entered into a state of overexcitement that looked more like an angry outburst”’
Irène Lindon, caretaker and advancer of Editions de Minuit - publishers of Duras, Beckett, Bourdieu &c - has died. Pictured here with Julia Deck (translator of Maggie Nelson), only one of whose novels has appeared in English.
December 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Irène Lindon, caretaker and advancer of Editions de Minuit - publishers of Duras, Beckett, Bourdieu &c - has died. Pictured here with Julia Deck (translator of Maggie Nelson), only one of whose novels has appeared in English.
RIP Frank Gehry 1929 - 2025
Those of us in Scotland are lucky to have his building for Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre in Dundee, which was in part modelled on indigenous but ‘n ben houses.
For his own place in Santa Monica, he “was trying to use the dumb, normal materials of the neighborhood.”
Those of us in Scotland are lucky to have his building for Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre in Dundee, which was in part modelled on indigenous but ‘n ben houses.
For his own place in Santa Monica, he “was trying to use the dumb, normal materials of the neighborhood.”
December 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
RIP Frank Gehry 1929 - 2025
Those of us in Scotland are lucky to have his building for Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre in Dundee, which was in part modelled on indigenous but ‘n ben houses.
For his own place in Santa Monica, he “was trying to use the dumb, normal materials of the neighborhood.”
Those of us in Scotland are lucky to have his building for Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre in Dundee, which was in part modelled on indigenous but ‘n ben houses.
For his own place in Santa Monica, he “was trying to use the dumb, normal materials of the neighborhood.”
A fine choice by Zinovy Zinik. Pop a copy of Greyhound in your loved one’s stocking. His TLS piece on the Russian translators of Dickens is a beauty
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
November 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
A fine choice by Zinovy Zinik. Pop a copy of Greyhound in your loved one’s stocking. His TLS piece on the Russian translators of Dickens is a beauty
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
Today.
Edinburgh.
Muriel Spark.
The front page.
Photographed on 25th May 1960.
Edinburgh.
Muriel Spark.
The front page.
Photographed on 25th May 1960.
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Today.
Edinburgh.
Muriel Spark.
The front page.
Photographed on 25th May 1960.
Edinburgh.
Muriel Spark.
The front page.
Photographed on 25th May 1960.
RIP 16 October 1944 - 17 May 2025
May 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
RIP 16 October 1944 - 17 May 2025
And here in the Scottish Borders on 1st January 2025
January 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
And here in the Scottish Borders on 1st January 2025
“It was as though we were being trained to have low standards and small dreams for the future; to prop up the economy as labourers or die of indifference”
A cracker of an essay from photographer Johny Pitts on the Tate’s new exhibition: The 80s - Photographing Britain
A cracker of an essay from photographer Johny Pitts on the Tate’s new exhibition: The 80s - Photographing Britain
December 14, 2024 at 10:29 AM
“It was as though we were being trained to have low standards and small dreams for the future; to prop up the economy as labourers or die of indifference”
A cracker of an essay from photographer Johny Pitts on the Tate’s new exhibition: The 80s - Photographing Britain
A cracker of an essay from photographer Johny Pitts on the Tate’s new exhibition: The 80s - Photographing Britain
Ernest Lehman, screenwriter, born on this day in 1915. Interesting to see, below, the different titles his movies had in France. North By Northwest was his only ‘original’ screenplay but his adaptations were magnificent too.
December 8, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Ernest Lehman, screenwriter, born on this day in 1915. Interesting to see, below, the different titles his movies had in France. North By Northwest was his only ‘original’ screenplay but his adaptations were magnificent too.
Particularly good De Beauvoir pic
December 7, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Particularly good De Beauvoir pic
This week’s merch at the National Gallery’s Van Gogh exhibition…
December 7, 2024 at 8:38 AM
This week’s merch at the National Gallery’s Van Gogh exhibition…
Kate O’Brien, born on this day:
‘When I begin my first chapter I certainly have no idea where we’d be in the last. Novels arise to me out of reflections on people rather than seeing situations into which I might put people. My ideas go from the people first and get them into the situations. ‘
‘When I begin my first chapter I certainly have no idea where we’d be in the last. Novels arise to me out of reflections on people rather than seeing situations into which I might put people. My ideas go from the people first and get them into the situations. ‘
December 3, 2024 at 9:11 AM
Kate O’Brien, born on this day:
‘When I begin my first chapter I certainly have no idea where we’d be in the last. Novels arise to me out of reflections on people rather than seeing situations into which I might put people. My ideas go from the people first and get them into the situations. ‘
‘When I begin my first chapter I certainly have no idea where we’d be in the last. Novels arise to me out of reflections on people rather than seeing situations into which I might put people. My ideas go from the people first and get them into the situations. ‘
Until midnight tonight Edinburghuniversitypress.com have all their titles at 50% off, including the recently published letters of Nan Shepherd (to Jessie Kesson, Neil Gunn, Hugh MacDiarmid,
Helen B. Cruickshank, Agnes Mure Mackenzie…
Helen B. Cruickshank, Agnes Mure Mackenzie…
November 30, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Until midnight tonight Edinburghuniversitypress.com have all their titles at 50% off, including the recently published letters of Nan Shepherd (to Jessie Kesson, Neil Gunn, Hugh MacDiarmid,
Helen B. Cruickshank, Agnes Mure Mackenzie…
Helen B. Cruickshank, Agnes Mure Mackenzie…
Always a good time for a note from Virginia Woolf. This one to Lytton Strachey in 1925, from deep in the special collections of Smith College:
November 27, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Always a good time for a note from Virginia Woolf. This one to Lytton Strachey in 1925, from deep in the special collections of Smith College:
Nice point about observing/participating, a skill we need now more than ever. But what of the Tolkien -esque translation of Wieners’ journals into Middle English:
November 26, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Nice point about observing/participating, a skill we need now more than ever. But what of the Tolkien -esque translation of Wieners’ journals into Middle English:
The Greenock born, Cornwall dwelling poet WS Graham was born on this day in 1918.
This is from @becimay.bsky.social ‘s copy of his Collected Poems
This is from @becimay.bsky.social ‘s copy of his Collected Poems
November 22, 2024 at 7:17 PM
The Greenock born, Cornwall dwelling poet WS Graham was born on this day in 1918.
This is from @becimay.bsky.social ‘s copy of his Collected Poems
This is from @becimay.bsky.social ‘s copy of his Collected Poems
If not there’s always this kiosk which recently popped up in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
November 16, 2024 at 9:25 PM
If not there’s always this kiosk which recently popped up in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
Next to me in a queue in Edinburgh. I’m off to look up Nancy Wake…
November 16, 2024 at 7:57 AM
Next to me in a queue in Edinburgh. I’m off to look up Nancy Wake…