Arthur Mandal

For all self-interest on JudgementDay will be given to darkness, as all those useless arguments which seek not love but only self-interest. By these interpretations the princes are led to cause wars, and by these ideas they attack and storm lands and people.
-Jakob Böhme, Der Weg Zu Christus (1622)

thank you...

"What Lurks In The Shadows Of TBR Dark" By Teresa Krasteva Horror is a genre that still receives much undeserved negativity. It is, after all, a genre that displays the most variety: witches and vampires, ghouls and gremlins, killer forests and unforgiving gh...

Since we’re already in an age of horror, I might as well mention the horror issue of @thebrusselsreview.bsky.social a piece of mine just came out in, “Letting People Go.” thebrusselsreview.com/teresa-krast...

Consumer Selective Amnesia (actually don't let me scam you, i just made that up)

I never get over how, in moments of crisis, you can be helped, even saved, by total strangers, whilst people you’ve known for years can completely let you down.

Don't they have some kind of cellophane water?

I bet they can't wait to get their grubby little hands on all of this.

Fascinating to see the levels of enthusiasm on social media in perfectly intelligent people for things to happen to other human beings they would never want to happen to themselves.

Yes, indeed.

Sirât (2025) | MUBI A man and his son arrive at a rave lost in the mountains of Morocco. They are looking for Marina, their daughter and sister, who disappeared months ago at another rave. Driven by fate, they decide to ...

Watched Sirat (2025) last week on mubi. Did anyone see this? A French film about European travellers spiralling down their own spirals in Morocco – familiar theme but some amazing landscapes which distracted eerily from the humanity of the film. Definitely worth a watch. mubi.com/en/tr/films/...

Novara media. Stopped taking the Guardian seriously years ago after the Corbyn smear campaign.

Comedy gold.

Sad

Thanks for the update, I am cautiously happy to hear this.

2/2 Lviv.

1/2. Since it is exactly four years since the beginning of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, I’m sharing some photos of one of its most architecturally beautiful cities, Lviv. The photos are from 2019. I have no idea if these buildings are damaged or not.

if you get a chance, you should read anything on D.F. by Carlos Monsivais, his essays rock

Writing is a crazy gig. After 8 weeks of no luck, just had two different stories accepted within 48 hours – one by LitMag, the other with Witness.

I'm just irritated by all the journalists and politicians (harriet harman, Maitlis, Lammy, etc) talking detachedly about this- when they were bosom buddies with the Mandelson crowd.

John Lanchester · King of Cannibal Island: Will the AI bubble burst? Nvidia shares are the purest bet you can make on the impact of AI. The leading firms are lending money to one another in...

Informative and succint overview of where we are in the AI bubble from John Lanchester in last month’s LRB – the guy whom, I remember, was writing about the absurdity of the financial markets, and their imminent implosion, well over a year before it actually happened. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The Heart Lamp is Amaazing. So well crafted.

Lebanon, 2017. (no filters) 2/2.

Lebanon, 2017. (no filters) 1/2.

Wow!

You’re welcome, Jane.

Haunted Passages: Three Microfictions by Addison Zeller The Dinosaurafter Augusto Monterroso The tip of the tail (a barb almost, dripping with rainwater) gleams despite the intervening clouds and leaves as sunlight plays on its back, continuing, while t…

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Richard Brautigan by Addison Zeller Richard Brautigan visits DeKalb, Illinois, a year before his suicide. It’s 1983, fifteen or sixteen years before I move there, so I miss the chance to see him; besides, I’m born in 1987. From William ...

This week I’m sharing the work of Addison Zeller @addisonzeller.bsky.social a writer whose work haunts me (Sebald springs to mind, but also Mark Haddon). The sadness is everywhere,but you can’t quite put your finger on it. (Amazing microfictions in first comment). www.havehashad.com/hadposts/ric...

thanks Julie.

These are amazing

Thanks Eugen! Will have a look at your own work.