Eyes on the street: A reading list on walking in cities
Suburban walks in a new city, making meaning, connection, and time
Mother Lode: Portraits of Modern Motherhood
#Scurf224: Four books to make you gasp at the horrors of motherhood
Through a tram window seat
#scurf223: Public transport is the most literary form of travel
The endotic in Gulzar
#scurf222: Living should engage all senses, says Gulzar as does Georges Perec
An Austenesque memory, summer & a poem
#Scurf221: Summer, Jane Austen 250th birth anniversary and then some
To love is to linger
#Scurf220: On peri-urban walks, loneliness and the importance of yearning
New York city and its (dis)contents
#Scurf219: On Sohini Kay's debut graphic memoir 'This Beautiful, Ridiculous City'
Who doesn't love a love story!
#scurf218: On Rohena Gera's 'Sir' (2018) and Tillotama Shome
A Satyajit Ray lockdown
#scurf217: This essay appears in the anthology 'Garden Among Fires' (Dodo Ink, July 2020); edited by Marina Benjamin
a devilishly beautiful, chaotic pause
#216: when work takes a backseat
Certified Copy: Reading in translation
#Scurf215: On reading Olga Ravn, Vigdis Hjorth and Tove Ditlevsen only in translation, and Geetanjali Shree in both avatars
on yiyun li's meditations
#scurf214: her essays have a way of pausing time
To see a city: Berlin is never Berlin
#scurf213: A reading list on Die Hauptstadt
poets pretend, climates change, humans don't behave
#scurf211: a dirge, a plea, a little something to be
Conversation with Susanna Crossman
#Scurf210: Essayist, writer and novelist, Susanna Crossman talks to me on how her Aeon essay became a book, all within a space of two years
my favorite book of 2024
#Scurf209: 'The Anthropologists' by Ayşegül Savaş is as enchanting as it is humbling. I wish for more novels like this.
A Swedish Christmas, some saffron buns and a warm winter
#Scurf208: On the little new things in life and walking the winding lanes of this dazzling city
The miner of difficult truths
#scurf207: On Catherine Keener's portraits of our thwarted, everyday selves
how should a person be🕯️🍁
#Scurf206: Walking and Talking (1996) & Girlfriends (1978) - these movies, predecessors to 2012's Frances Ha, teach us a valuable something about being somewhere in the middle
Conversation with Will Anderson
#Scurf205: On the tradition of reading on family holidays, finding community on Goodreads and what reading can mean to us
