The New Romantics

I do not want to be in the business of manipulating your split-second attention.

But boredom is when life happens.

We are never as good as we should be; and neither, it seems, are other people. A life without a so-called critical faculty would seem an idiocy: what are we, after all, but our powers of discrimination, our taste, the violence of our preferences? Self-criticism, and the self as critical, are essential to our sense, our picture, of our so-called... See more

Which brings us back to the question of traditionalism and dynamism, and their potential interaction: if you have had a cultural revolution that cleared too much ground, razed too many bastions and led to a kind of cultural debasement and forgetting, you probably need to go backward, or least turn that way for recollection, before you can hope to... See more

Roland Allen’s The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper . Allen points out that “people often start diaries in times of upheaval,”

Do we need to practice being human again?

It is a mistake and a misreading of nature to think that you, a living creature, will be flourishing all the days of your life.

Buying used books is the absolute antithesis of the subscription model that is destroying everything I love.