literature

Watercolor drawings by Beatrix Potter Source: British Museum I've been going down a Beatrix Potter rabbit hole (pun intended), and I wanted ...

Nan Shepherd My favorite quotes from Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain , her exquisite book about the Cairngorm mountains in Scotland: No, ...

"There are no miracles. There is just this. The love that nourished your happiness will nourish your pain." — Geneviève Jurgensen , The Disa...

"Boundless" by Tomo Katsurada & Misha Panfilov A beautiful conversation about writing between Ocean Vuong and David Perell

The Abandoned Valley by Jack Gilbert Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket int...

Today, I finished Ray Bradbury's short story collection, The Illustrated Man . Some of the stories in it are now all-time favorites: Kaleido...

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...