Max Liu

For now, her greatest hope — and that of the majority of Venezuelans, who are opposed to the regime — lies in Trump and his desire to ensure Maduro’s political demise. “I totally support his strategy,” Machado told me. “And I’ve said on behalf of the Venezuelan people that we are very grateful. I think it is the right thing to do. It’s courageous. It’s visionary.” But attacking a speedboat? Killing 11 citizens? “I’m in favour of the US dismantling this criminal structure.”

yeah uh not sure this Nobel Peace Prize is the anti-Trump dunk so many people seem to believe it is www.thetimes.com/world/latin-...

Sign the Petition Release Journalist Emily Wilder from Israeli Detention

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Why László Krasznahorkai won the Nobel Prize for Literature The Hungarian author’s work displays a huge and haunting vision

www.newstatesman.com/culture/2025...

Alexander Wells, Fight or Flight — Sidecar On László Krasznahorkai.

quick everyone repost your Krasznahorkai essays!!!!

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Thousand Madleens flotilla Statement - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann 8 October 2025 Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan, one of several Irish citizens taking part in the Thousand Madleens f...

Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan...The flotilla was illegally intercepted last night and seized by armed Israeli forces in international waters.
irishpen.com/2025/10/08/t...

Went to a shop, bought a novel on publication day (near enough), came home, started reading. Haven't felt this excitement since err... Bleeding Edge. Or when late Roths were coming out. Cherish greatness while we have it and always be a fan.

Helen Garner This House of Grief
Geoff Dyer Another Great Day at Sea
Lamorna Ash Dark, Salt, Clear
Jonathan Raban Hunting Mister Heartbreak

I am saying once again that the Conservative attack on the Arts is because they are incredibly envious of artists who they perceive as a group that has “too much” cultural power, a type of influence Conservatives crave but will never have because they’re anti-intellectuals with no imagination.

The new Geese album, Getting Killed, is making me smile this morning

The ratio of arrests in comparison with the Tommy Robinson protests is absolutely wild. People peacefully holding a sign vs people violently attacking the police and the public.

Wincing the night away

terrorism act charges very serious as well. a young person would live the rest of their life uncertain about the consequences on their employment and travel opportunities. really steep potential punishments.

Writing fiction in the third person past tense is starting to feel as stubbornly anachronistic as making studio sitcoms with a laughter track.

Why every middle-aged man should watch Gilmore Girls Watching the show for the first time last autumn, I realised its comforting rituals, perfectly drawn characters and irreverent dialogue were exactly what I needed

It feels like autumn so... inews.co.uk/culture/tele...

‘The man who came to read the metre’: Yorkshire poet Tony Harrison was the National Theatre bard Harrison, who has died aged 88, wrote copiously for the stage, both as an ingenious translator and dazzlingly original dramatist

Good appreciation of Tony Harrison the dramatist and translator www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...

This week I was at a reading where re. accessibility a poet said: "I wouldn't want to write a poem my dad couldn't read." I thought of Tony Harrison's more ambivalent: "I'd like to be the poet my father reads" from School of Eloquence. Some of the best poetry on art, class, England. RIP.

Tony Harrison · Poem: ‘V.’

‪Tony Harrison's 'V.' was first published in the London Review of Books in 1985. The front page of the Daily Mail reported on the 'FOUR LETTER TV POEM FURY.'

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...

A quick reminder that this wee gem goes out this afternoon at 3:45pm. If you miss it you can catch up later on BBC Sounds.

One Battle After Another is the only game in town this weekend, obviously. But in the meantime the title makes me think of the character in the History Boys who says history is "one fucking thing after another..."

thank fucking god

Reading the New Pynchon Novel in a Pynchonesque America “Shadow Ticket,” Pynchon’s first book in a dozen years, unfolds its conspiracies in Depression-era Milwaukee and beyond, but it lands in a moment when reality seems to have caught up with his fictions...

"Even a seventy-million-trick pony is still a trick pony..." Great Kathryn Schulz review to get Pynchon season underway
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

It is and it's one of two I had down as a potential winner at the longlist stage

How the Booker Prize 2025 longlist explores masculinity in all its forms | The Booker Prizes From teenagers on the brink of adulthood to grown men struggling to process trauma, this year’s longlisted books offer fascinating insights into the male psyche – and bear similarities to other Booker...

The @thebookerprizes.com shortlist is out! I wrote about three of the six novels - by Markovits, Miller, Szalay - here. Fwiw I am v happy for Markovits... thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

It was great wasn't it. I think I caught Paul Graham there earlier this year after you posted about it so belated thanks!

My bad picture of a good picture of Leonora Carrington by Kati Horna that I meant to share from an exhibition that closed a couple of weeks ago

Details here! amheath.com/hilary-mante...
#emergingwriters

Spent 3 hours of my birthday watching Magnolia in the cinema. As brilliant and monumental as when it first blew my mind open 25 years ago though with different feelings about some characters. I've said before but until I saw Magnolia I didn't know cinema was an artform. Can't wait for new PTA

A big superimposed copy of Luke’s book, The Book of Jonah, “emerges” from the sea.

Reminder that my new poetry collection (my SEVENTH because I apparently cannot take a hint) is available from Picador www.panmacmillan.com/authors/luke...

Firing Jimmy Kimmel confirms the US media is being silenc... The first amendment protects freedom of the press. Trump, our great patriot, is trampling all over it

Five alarm fire. Goodbye Jimmy Kimmel, @karenattiah.bsky.social — and press freedom. Follow @rbreich.bsky.social if you don’t already to see how all this works. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

This is worth a listen. It's fair on the govt and offers constructive hope because it doesn't talk the horror of a Reform victory into being, as I keep hearing others do, and explains how Labour can earn people's votes... And really great to see Andy Beckett in the lrb