Wang Sum Luk
@ws-luk.bsky.social
THE CLOSER LUK on Substack | Dep. Ed. @ LOST ART magazine | News Associates grad | Words in LondonWorld, Inverse, BFI, & more | he/him
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My recipe for artichoke with a blood orange mayonnaise is a delicious and unusual appetiser, perfect for entertaining guests at Christmas. Click below to learn how it's made.
#RecipeOfTheDay #food #recipe #cooking 🍽️🍜
#RecipeOfTheDay #food #recipe #cooking 🍽️🍜
December 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
My recipe for artichoke with a blood orange mayonnaise is a delicious and unusual appetiser, perfect for entertaining guests at Christmas. Click below to learn how it's made.
#RecipeOfTheDay #food #recipe #cooking 🍽️🍜
#RecipeOfTheDay #food #recipe #cooking 🍽️🍜
I'm genuinely excited to see more people read Sophie Mackintosh's PERMANENCE when it comes out next year. Read my review of her novel below.
📚💙 #booksky #bookreview
📚💙 #booksky #bookreview
December 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I'm genuinely excited to see more people read Sophie Mackintosh's PERMANENCE when it comes out next year. Read my review of her novel below.
📚💙 #booksky #bookreview
📚💙 #booksky #bookreview
What should you give the book-lover in your life for Christmas? Click below to learn about my favourite reads of 2025 and more!
📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay
📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay
December 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
What should you give the book-lover in your life for Christmas? Click below to learn about my favourite reads of 2025 and more!
📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay
📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay
For anyone who read the article and was curious, here's Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs calling cinematographer Dick Pope "Dick Poop":
December 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
For anyone who read the article and was curious, here's Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs calling cinematographer Dick Pope "Dick Poop":
December 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
“In the city there was time for all of this, and more. Time for the ordinary, to which we normally give little value…”
You should get excited for Sophie Mackintosh's upcoming novel PERMANENCE. To learn why, read my review of this subtle, moving book: buff.ly/HnFa6bW
📚💙 #booksky #bookreview
You should get excited for Sophie Mackintosh's upcoming novel PERMANENCE. To learn why, read my review of this subtle, moving book: buff.ly/HnFa6bW
📚💙 #booksky #bookreview
December 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
“In the city there was time for all of this, and more. Time for the ordinary, to which we normally give little value…”
You should get excited for Sophie Mackintosh's upcoming novel PERMANENCE. To learn why, read my review of this subtle, moving book: buff.ly/HnFa6bW
📚💙 #booksky #bookreview
You should get excited for Sophie Mackintosh's upcoming novel PERMANENCE. To learn why, read my review of this subtle, moving book: buff.ly/HnFa6bW
📚💙 #booksky #bookreview
Prepare for Christmas with artichokes and adultery in my newsletter, featuring:
• Sophie Mackintosh's philosophical and beautiful novel PERMANENCE
• paintings of two iconic adulterers
• the joy of artichokes!
📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay
• Sophie Mackintosh's philosophical and beautiful novel PERMANENCE
• paintings of two iconic adulterers
• the joy of artichokes!
📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay
To kiss and condemn
It's time to think about artichokes...
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December 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Prepare for Christmas with artichokes and adultery in my newsletter, featuring:
• Sophie Mackintosh's philosophical and beautiful novel PERMANENCE
• paintings of two iconic adulterers
• the joy of artichokes!
📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay
• Sophie Mackintosh's philosophical and beautiful novel PERMANENCE
• paintings of two iconic adulterers
• the joy of artichokes!
📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay
A modern classic.
December 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
A modern classic.
An otherwise excellent cookbook I’ve just read kept referring to sauces as a "viscous halo", which is a remarkably strange phrase for describing food, but an excellent name for a prog-rock band.
December 7, 2025 at 10:32 AM
An otherwise excellent cookbook I’ve just read kept referring to sauces as a "viscous halo", which is a remarkably strange phrase for describing food, but an excellent name for a prog-rock band.
ICYMI:
Click here to travel back to the 1930s with a thrilling mystery, an underrated artist, and Victorian-era breakfast, all in my newsletter: buff.ly/vdb7QYs
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Click here to travel back to the 1930s with a thrilling mystery, an underrated artist, and Victorian-era breakfast, all in my newsletter: buff.ly/vdb7QYs
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December 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
ICYMI:
Click here to travel back to the 1930s with a thrilling mystery, an underrated artist, and Victorian-era breakfast, all in my newsletter: buff.ly/vdb7QYs
📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay #history
Click here to travel back to the 1930s with a thrilling mystery, an underrated artist, and Victorian-era breakfast, all in my newsletter: buff.ly/vdb7QYs
📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay #history
Just awoke from a nightmare about walking round a darkened, desolate book fair, in case anyone's curious how my job search in publishing is going.
December 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Just awoke from a nightmare about walking round a darkened, desolate book fair, in case anyone's curious how my job search in publishing is going.
This is a genuinely laudable goal (see below for a quick, cheap bean recipe I love) and deserves all the publicity it can get...but could they not have given the campaign *literally any other name*?
Celebrity chefs urge Britons to ‘bang in some beans’ to boost legume consumption
Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and major supermarkets want to double amount of beans Britons eat
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and major supermarkets want to double amount of beans Britons eat
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Celebrity chefs urge Britons to ‘bang in some beans’ to boost legume consumption
Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and major supermarkets want to double amount of beans Britons eat
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This is a genuinely laudable goal (see below for a quick, cheap bean recipe I love) and deserves all the publicity it can get...but could they not have given the campaign *literally any other name*?
My #RecipeOfTheDay, an easy one-pan kedgeree, is something I make all the time. Click below to learn the recipe for this simple and spicy main course.
#food #recipe #cooking 🍽️🍜
#food #recipe #cooking 🍽️🍜
December 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
My #RecipeOfTheDay, an easy one-pan kedgeree, is something I make all the time. Click below to learn the recipe for this simple and spicy main course.
#food #recipe #cooking 🍽️🍜
#food #recipe #cooking 🍽️🍜
Contemplate the cool subtlety of Dod Procter's portraits in this retrospective of her deeply underrated artwork, which combines realism with an icy elegance.
#art
#art
December 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Contemplate the cool subtlety of Dod Procter's portraits in this retrospective of her deeply underrated artwork, which combines realism with an icy elegance.
#art
#art
Christmas at Thornleigh Hall means balls, betrayal, and bloodshed in Emily Critchley's THE UNDOING OF VIOLET CLAYBOURNE, now available in paperback. Click below for my review of this wintry mystery novel!
📚💙 #booksky #bookreview
📚💙 #booksky #bookreview
December 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Christmas at Thornleigh Hall means balls, betrayal, and bloodshed in Emily Critchley's THE UNDOING OF VIOLET CLAYBOURNE, now available in paperback. Click below for my review of this wintry mystery novel!
📚💙 #booksky #bookreview
📚💙 #booksky #bookreview
Perk up your hump day with a thrilling mystery novel, an underrated painter, and Victorian-style breakfast!
📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay
📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay
December 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Perk up your hump day with a thrilling mystery novel, an underrated painter, and Victorian-style breakfast!
📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay
📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay
December 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Reposted by Wang Sum Luk
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
A chilling mystery about nasty rich people, Emily Critchley's THE UNDOING OF VIOLET CLAYBOURNE (now out in paperback) will thrill you during a chilly winter night.
Read my review here (and subscribe!): buff.ly/vdb7QYs
📚💙 #booksky #bookreview
Read my review here (and subscribe!): buff.ly/vdb7QYs
📚💙 #booksky #bookreview
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
A chilling mystery about nasty rich people, Emily Critchley's THE UNDOING OF VIOLET CLAYBOURNE (now out in paperback) will thrill you during a chilly winter night.
Read my review here (and subscribe!): buff.ly/vdb7QYs
📚💙 #booksky #bookreview
Read my review here (and subscribe!): buff.ly/vdb7QYs
📚💙 #booksky #bookreview
Take a trip back to the 1930s in today's newsletter, featuring:
• Emily Critchley's wintry mystery THE UNDOING OF VIOLENT CLAYBOURNE
• Dod Procter's icily beautiful portraits
• my reinvention of a Victorian dish!
📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay
• Emily Critchley's wintry mystery THE UNDOING OF VIOLENT CLAYBOURNE
• Dod Procter's icily beautiful portraits
• my reinvention of a Victorian dish!
📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay
How to hide the bodies
Home is where the horror is
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December 1, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Take a trip back to the 1930s in today's newsletter, featuring:
• Emily Critchley's wintry mystery THE UNDOING OF VIOLENT CLAYBOURNE
• Dod Procter's icily beautiful portraits
• my reinvention of a Victorian dish!
📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay
• Emily Critchley's wintry mystery THE UNDOING OF VIOLENT CLAYBOURNE
• Dod Procter's icily beautiful portraits
• my reinvention of a Victorian dish!
📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay
ICYMI:
Roman mummies, boozy desserts, and an awful book are featured in my newsletter. Click below (and subscribe) to laugh along at ridiculous quotes, or be inspired by beautiful art!
Read it here: buff.ly/z7caBMB
📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay #history
Roman mummies, boozy desserts, and an awful book are featured in my newsletter. Click below (and subscribe) to laugh along at ridiculous quotes, or be inspired by beautiful art!
Read it here: buff.ly/z7caBMB
📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay #history
November 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM
ICYMI:
Roman mummies, boozy desserts, and an awful book are featured in my newsletter. Click below (and subscribe) to laugh along at ridiculous quotes, or be inspired by beautiful art!
Read it here: buff.ly/z7caBMB
📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay #history
Roman mummies, boozy desserts, and an awful book are featured in my newsletter. Click below (and subscribe) to laugh along at ridiculous quotes, or be inspired by beautiful art!
Read it here: buff.ly/z7caBMB
📚💙🍽️🍜 #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay #history
I hope #filmsky 📽️ is as proud as I am that today, I briefly convinced a friend that THE SUBSTANCE’s main character was named John Substance.
November 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I hope #filmsky 📽️ is as proud as I am that today, I briefly convinced a friend that THE SUBSTANCE’s main character was named John Substance.
Lucy Steeds' THE ARTIST is the Waterstones book of the year. It's also got an equally prestigious endorsement from my newsletter.
Click below to learn why I loved it, what other books I recommend, and why I read more than 365 books this year!
📚💙 #booksky #bookreview
Click below to learn why I loved it, what other books I recommend, and why I read more than 365 books this year!
📚💙 #booksky #bookreview
I read 365 books this year
How (and why) I did it
wsluk.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Lucy Steeds' THE ARTIST is the Waterstones book of the year. It's also got an equally prestigious endorsement from my newsletter.
Click below to learn why I loved it, what other books I recommend, and why I read more than 365 books this year!
📚💙 #booksky #bookreview
Click below to learn why I loved it, what other books I recommend, and why I read more than 365 books this year!
📚💙 #booksky #bookreview