Matthew Turner

My third 1/6. With bonus screenshots of the first two.

Wordle 1,603 1/6

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Sorry I’m late. I had to scroll to my birth year on an app.

One night a thief entered Ryōkan’s mountain hut and found nothing to steal. Ryōkan said, “You have come a long way, and should not go empty‑handed. Take my clothes as a gift.” He later sat naked, gazing at the sky. “Poor fellow—I wish I could have given him this beautiful moon.”
—Ryōkan (1758–1831)

A 40-year wait for ‘Mishima’ ends at TIFF Paul Schrader’s banned biopic of the radical author Yukio Mishima finds its Japanese audience at last.

A 40-year wait for ‘Mishima’ ends at TIFF

Installing our show Liberation Radio at the Index Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm. Opens Friday. Here’s a picture of the kitchen. indexfoundation.se/exhibitions/...

'Bird of the Year' kārearea turns on Wellington walkers The champion kārearea has its talons out in the capital.

I do think it would be very funny if the title was revoked this year

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ありがとうございます🙏

Thanks! It was a lot of fun. We had some friends come along and watch, and the photographer kindly took some portraits of all of us.

A man and woman in Japanese wedding attire sitting in front of a gold screen

A man and woman in Japanese wedding attire holding colourful umbrellas

A man and woman in Japanese wedding attire sitting on a bench in a fake garden

Full-length portrait of a man and woman in Japanese wedding attire

Some of the “wedding” photos we had taken in Yokohama last month to mark our 35th wedding anniversary.

The Beatles: actors playing the spouses of the Fab Four in Sam Mendes’ films confirmed Mia McKenna-Bruce, Saoirse Ronan, Anna Sawai and Aimee Lou Wood have been cast in Sam Mendes’ forthcoming four-part film series

I was wondering who they’d get to play Yoko Ono. It’s New Zealand-born Japanese actor Anna Sawai.

A conversation including Wordle scores between two brothers on Signal

A conversation including Wordle scores between two brothers on Signal

I’ve been exchanging Wordle results with my brother for years, but last week was the first time we both got consecutive scores of 2/6.

40 years after The Bone People won the Booker

Simply sublime! Top marks for rhyming “foreigners” and “slurs”.

On the subject of American deserters from the Vietnam
War ending up in Sweden, also see my novel SWEDEN.

In 1968, a group of US military deserters from the Vietnam War went to the NLF Groups in Stockholm with the sole purpose of joining the army they had been drafted to fight against. Instead, they were recruited for Second Front Radio, a radio program launched to persuade other US soldiers to desert.

A white man in traditional Japanese dress

New author photo just dropped 😜

Looking hot! 🔥 Cover is good too.

Dude sitting in his car, holding up the cover of a book, The Divide, from Cornerstone Press.

Cover reveal. The author and an ARC of his beautiful new book, “The Divide,” from Cornerstone Press, release date of February, 2026. I’m so pleased with the folks at this press!

YouTube video by A24 The Brutalist | Official Trailer HD | A24

Watched The Brutalist in instalments over the weekend.

Visually stunning, and amazing to think it was filmed in just 34 days. A fine piece of work but, for me, it lacked an emotional heart. I was impressed, and always interested, but at no point did I actually care.

Thanks for all your replies. Got things sorted with help from the wonderful Eleanor G.

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Reposts appreciated! The insurance company is in New Zealand by the way. These are their instructions for contacting them in an emergency:

Ok. Thanks for the suggestions, Alfie.

The number I need to call is in New
Zealand. I don’t think Google Voice works there. How do I place a collect call through a public phone?

I’m in Japan, and I need to phone my travel insurance company. They say to “phone collect through an International Operator,” but I gather that’s no longer possible in Japan. What should I do?

Four people sitting on a train eating from bento boxes resting on their laps

Enjoying our bento on the train to Numazu

They might as well just ban living

A range of signs prohibiting the entry of Scottish Terriers at a mall in Kawasaki, Japan

Update: Also, no Scottish Terriers in bags on trolleys

A man and a woman in Japanese wedding attire

A man and a woman in Japanese wedding attire

A man and a woman in Japanese wedding attire drawing swords

A view of the Yokohama skyline at night

Spent most of the day having photos taken to mark our 35th wedding anniversary. Later we had dinner in Yokohama.

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The glass and concrete interior of the National Art Center, Tokyo

At the National Art Center, Tokyo for “Prism of the Real: Making Art in Japan 1989-2010”. An amazing exhibition you shouldn’t miss if you’re in Tokyo.