Archive - personal canon

everything i read in february 2025

3 novels and 2 films on love, despair, and loss ✦ and how to read Hannah Arendt for the first time

19 hrs ago •

February 2025

everything i read in january 2025

4 books on religion, health, work, art ✦

Feb 8 •

January 2025

on copying, technique and taste ✦ plus 6 close readings of great essay intros

Jan 26 •

December 2024

and since i have never said ‘youth must end,’ youth will not end

Flaubert on turning 31 ✦ and mathematical models for when to commit

Dec 31, 2024 •

best books of 2024

including novels, nonfiction, short stories and essays ✦✧

Dec 30, 2024 •

in praise of writing on the internet

one year, 34 posts, and 8,000 subscribers later ✦✧

Dec 9, 2024 •

everything i read in november 2024

a bad reading month and a good film-watching month ✦ feat. anime classics, Vietnamese & Iranian slow cinema, and Sean Baker's Anora

Dec 1, 2024 •

November 2024

October 2024

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