Christmas morning in London felt quieter than expected. No snow, just that particular December stillness when most of the city stays indoors. I’d planned nothing elaborate. Coffee, reading, maybe a walk if the weather cooperated. The past months have been dense with festivals, conferences, teaching commitments. Sometimes the best gift is structured emptiness. Spent the […]
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The Marylebone branch always feels different in December. The Christmas displays are obvious, but the light falls differently through those tall windows when London gets properly winter. I wasn’t hunting for anything specific. Walking between shelves without agenda lets your brain process recent months without forcing conclusions. 2025 has been intense. ECG festivals, Literature Across
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Thursday evening at Beveridge Hall felt electric. Amia Srinivasan’s “The Impossible Patient” wasn’t just another academic lecture—it was intellectual archaeology of our current political moment. Srinivasan approached the podium with that quiet confidence you recognize in serious thinkers. Her premise? Political theorists are turning back to Freud not for nostalgia, but for tools. Repression, fantasy,
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Four days at Voices of Friends V taught me something unexpected about creative territories. Not the usual festival insights about networking or inspiration – something rawer. Watching Kazakhstani poets read alongside British writers, listening to Russian authors translate emotion into English in real-time, I realised we’re all performing translation. Not just linguistic—cultural, generational, personal. Every
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Dive into my latest novel that explores art meets algorithm in our hyperconnected world. Multilingual storytelling with visual elements—questioning what’s authentic behind perfectly curated facades.
