Arthur Mandal

Thanks for re-posting, Suzanne.

Thank you David.

lol. i see tremendous possibilities for this new verb.

that's a very melancoly image.

Prose: “The End of Craftsmanship,” by Arthur Mandal He has been living on the edge of the desert for nearly fourteen years. There is very little to distract him. A truck stop and a gas station, about a mile down the road. A small strip of shops a fu…

Although it’s Halloween, I’m afraid the flash fiction piece I’m sharing is not even remotely supernatural. Apologies in advance. It’s called “The End of Craftmanship”, and just came out in the Euphony Journal. euphonyjournal.org/2025/10/22/p...

wo ist das eigentlich?

yes, totally. there are so many other cities i'd love to drive around too - now the historical resources are there digitally archived, and the AI to boot, there shouldn't be any reason not to have this.

April (2024) | MUBI Nina, an obstetrician-gynecologist working in the only hospital of a provincial town in Georgia, is unconditionally devoted to her patients, even if that means crossing the line legally or socially. B...

I’m following the dark, precise cinema of Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvilli. I recently watched “April” (2024), a tale of a doctor doing local abortions. There is “Beginning” (2020), about a Christian evangelical church. She films with absolute, spellbinding control. mubi.com/en/qa/films/...

this is too funny. I actually miss satire.

@ahmedmehreen.bsky.social

Incandescence New ISBN: 978-1915819048 Incandescence is a novel abou…

This week’s writer is Mehreen Ahmed, a gifted Bangladeshi-born novelist now based in Australia. Won multiple prizes. I’m reading her Incandescence (2023) and really enjoying it—maybe because I visited Dhaka 3 years ago and recognise some of the places. www.goodreads.com/book/show/64...

wow congratulations!!

Yikes

loved Carnival of Souls. Am also a huge Haneke fan but found Hour of the Wolf less capitvating than his other films.

I think "rainbow" was somehow more terrifying.

wasn't it the plot of Los segretos de sus ojos?

Berlin 2/2

Photos from Berlin – die schoenste Stadt der Welt.

don't tell us about it, write it!

I’ve been to ladakh twice, you should definitely go, it’s amazing.

yikes, poor Walter - i never knew you were so disappointed in him. Although I think it was 'Ursprung des Trauerspiels' which accelerated my interest in these guys in the first place. That and Frances Yates.

was the Louvre just robbed?

Not to be misunderstood, but i actually have a soft spot for Pico della Mirandola - (Bruno, Cusano, all those Renaissance Neoplatonists - i love their freaky occult ways).

nice.

Fall 2025 — Catamaran Literary Reader

catamaranliteraryreader.com/fall-2025

My short story “Hymn to Sri Devi” came out last week in Catamaran (link in first comment). I’m sharing a photo of the first page – sorry I can’t share the whole thing. Honored to be on the same cover as Percival Everett.

lol always nice to have something you can sing along to.

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

I thought I was numb to Epstein stuff by now, but this one really hit. Not just that the woman who wrote it killed herself, or that predators target working-class women with family trauma—but that their clients will die peacefully in their beds. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is so crazy it’s actually funny.

Beautiful photo