literature

El Sur (Víctor Erice, 1983) My favorite quotes from Adelaida García Morales's El Sur (translated by Thomas G. Deveny): You emptied me of eve...

Italo Calvino: The Writer in the Trees (Duccio Chiarini, 2023)

Edvard Munch - "The Sun" (1911) Annie Ernaux on writing (via The Yale Review ): Without realizing it, I am widening the gap between my paren...

Ingeborg Bachmann: Rebel Poet (Barbara Frank, 2026)

I had to have this beautiful hardcover edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince . This book makes me weep every time I read i...

I finished Tove Jansson's The Summer Book on this summer solstice. It's about a grandmother and her granddaughter spending the summer togeth...

Tonight, I finished Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince ! I'd never read it before. It touched my heart so much. I think it was the...

"We Will Not Be Lovers" by The Waterboys Unrequited love is about hunger. It's about what we want and can't have, what seduces and tantalize...

"Digital Detox with Rilke" by Adam Walker "Now, our ability to appreciate moments of quietude and contemplation must be strengthened. Right ...