Carlos Barragán

A special moment that never gets old, unboxing a new book after years of work on it. Please help me welcome The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.

Soho Reading Series Tickets | £3 | 11 Jul @ Big Penny Social, London | DICE Soho Reading Series presents the Happiness and Love Gala Readers: - Zoe Dubno - Geoff Dyer - Olivia Sudjic - Molly Steemson - Toye Oladinni - Orlando Reade...

London friends! I am reading for the Soho Literary Reading Series at the Big Penny Social on July 11. Get tickets for Geoff Dyer and other great writers and stay for the 600-people party.

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We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

One thing that I will say of my upbringing is that supporting the most vulnerable in our societies is non-negotiable. As far as I am concerned, if you say you have faith but reject this basic premise you, to quote James Baldwin, "are not a believer, and I don't care what church you go to"

Bleakly poetic finale for one of Europe’s big green industrial hopes: there’s now a homepage auctioning off the entire Northvolt factory in Sweden - complete sell-off, right down to the parking signs and bike racks.

nvx.psauction.com?gad_source=1...

My 2023 Atavist story, The Romance Scammer on my Sofa, was translated into Portuguese by the fabulous Brazilian magazine Piaui Magazine.
piaui.folha.uol.com.br/viagem-golpe...

We have been warned for years about AI becoming all-powerful and destroying the human race but of course the real danger is that these systems enable a lazy and reckless ruling class to offload decision-making and avoid accountability

Migrants will have to learn English 'to A-Level standard' to get UK visa The immigration white paper, due to be published next week, will lay out Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to get tougher on migration rules in the wake of Reform UK’s wins at the local elections

Let's do this with the Brits living in Spain just por las risas. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Congrats. Can´t wait to read it.

The west’s shameful silence on Gaza The US and European allies should do more to restrain Benjamin Netanyahu

The west’s shameful silence on Gaza

"The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity."

www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

devastador

Welcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazy The last bits of fellowship and ingenuity on the web are being swept away by a tide of so-called artificial intelligence

For the FT, I wrote an essay about why the daily experience of the Internet keeps getting worse, tipping us into madness and conflict. I gather ideas about slop, enshittification, and dead internet theory under what I call "the hostile Internet."
www.ft.com/content/5d06...

Fantastic piece.

Is Warfare the most realistic war film ever made? In Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s brutal and immersive new film, memory informs the events that take place in real time to a unit of soldiers in Iraq

Is Warfare the most realistic war film ever made? By @adrianhorton.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...

and yet they come to Europe and lecture everyone on free speech

Muere Mario Vargas Llosa, gigante de las letras universales El escritor hispano peruano, premio Nobel de Literatura en 2010, fue autor de obras maestras como ‘Conversación en la catedral’

El mejor novelista en español de siempre. elpais.com/cultura/2025...

WTF Happened In 1971? Visit the post for more.

My new fav website: wtfhappenedin1971.com

Haha Piso Paco > SP 500

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

This is high art

How Gatsby foretold Trump’s America A century after it was published, F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is more relevant than ever. Sarah Churchwell on the trouble with ‘careless people’

Fantastic piece by Sarah Churchwell. "The Great Gatsby is not simply a story of defeat. It is an elegy for a dream that continues to struggle on, undespairingly, even when it has already been lost."

www.ft.com/content/dd6f...

I guess I can call myself a writer now?

The Yahoo Boys (Fall 2026) -- Will be available in your fav bookstore in the US (FSG), Spain (Reservoir Books), UK (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) and Germany (Shurkamp). Literary agent: @ameliaatlas.bsky.social

It feels so surreal as an American to hear about Green Card holders asking relatives of mine to delete text exchanges on their phones for fear that they'll be searched by the authorities and those private conversations will become the pretext for illegally deporting them. But here we are.

You start with one word.

You keep going until you reach 70 or 80 thousand, maybe more, maybe less.

Then the real work of shaping begins.

It's months later, maybe years, and you don't even know if anyone's going to like it, much less pay the price of a coffee and croissant for it.

Madness.

Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Jewish settlers and detained, activists say Activists say Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank, and he was then detained by the Israeli military.

Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank on Monday, and he was then detained by the Israeli military, activists on the scene said.

The 2025 journalist’s digital security checklist Our digital security training team's checklist to help journalists secure their digital life.

if you need it:

Je suis Khalil The fate of the detained Columbia University graduate is a test of how easily Trump can slide into lawlessness

Je suis Khalil www.ft.com/content/bcd3...

Waiting for someone to float Madagascar as an option just to complete the irony

Harry Potter and the unpaid tax bill A London Centric investigation reveals one of the capital's most garish gift shops owes hundreds of thousands of pounds in unpaid taxes — and uncovers its mysterious owners.

Anyway, if MailOnline are going to stick their story behind a paywall then I'm going to make mine available for free for 24 hours. So have a read, stick this in your WhatsApp group, and just help me spread the word about where to get the real thing.
www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...

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