October 28, 2019 – Umberto Eco on the merits of imperfect works of art, including ‘The Count of Monte Cristo,’ ‘Hamlet,’ and ‘Casablanca.’
Umberto Eco's Guide to Writing a Thesis
A funny and unpretentious guide by the illustrious novelist Umberto Eco, for his favorite audience: teachers and their students.
Revenge of the Dilettantes
Book club and AI adventures, age of bespokeness, study groups, new rules of engagement
Revenge of the Dilettantes
Book club and AI adventures, age of bespokeness, study groups, new rules of engagement
The Imperfectionist: Navigating by aliveness
I’m amazed and very pleased to say that the UK paperback of Meditations for Mortals entered the Sunday Times bestsellers at number 9 this week, after being selected as a Waterst...
Branch Magazine Issue 8: Finding beauty in the imperfect
Branch is an online magazine written by and for people who dream of a sustainable and just internet. Issue 8 out now: Finding beauty in the imperfect.
Capitalist Realism and the Eviction of Culture: Notes from Ljubljana
I’d like to thank everyone who came out to Nova pošta last Thursday evening to my lecture on Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism, recently translated into Slovenian by Pika Golob and Nina …
Perfectly Imperfect is the ‘social magazine’ (and nerd’s paradise) remodelling the online sphere
Split between a platform to profile figures from Charli XCX to Francis Ford Coppola, and a social network that refuses to serve the algorithm overlords, this magazine is breaking necks.
It’s Never Going to Be Perfect, So Just Get It Done (Published 2019)
Voltaire was right.
Amelie Lens | Adscendo, a Digital Introduction
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
A book that redefines both family and narrative for the…
Positive obsession: the life and times of Octavia E. Butler
"A magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work"--
We Are Living in Pinocchio’s World
I have always wanted to own a Montblanc Writers Edition dedicated to Carlo Collodi, the Italian author whose real name was Carlo Lorenzini. He took his pen name from the Tuscan village where his mo…
The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles
A fabulously gay blind author.
