great(ish) pt 30: poetry, Substack, dessert
Hello! I hope you're okay-ish. This time, stuff to read, watch, listen to and eat, all of which will hopefully provide some comfort in dreary times: everyone...
great(ish) pt 29: mountaineering, Beowulf, museums (again)
Hello! I've been watching Austrian nature documentaries and dreaming about mountains. Today: mountaineering; museumeering; Beowulf; music that makes me feel...
great(ish) pt 28: beasts, travel influencers, romance in train stations
Hello! Today, an old British film, a new book translated from Chinese, podcast episodes about LotR, finally learning the truth about Spotify and travel...
great(ish) pt 27: magic flowers, Spanish Destiel, Powerpoint
Happy Friday! I managed to cut my fingers twice today. Today, TV and translation, a Forster adaptation, a novel about transformation, and how I party now. I...
great(ish) pt 26: Folklore dancing, headphones, Dune
Hello! This week, an article about bad headphones, a film about learning how to set a table, a book about desert imperialism and a video workout that made me...
great(ish) pt 25: Airspace, urban fantasy, Emma
Hello. Today’s letter is heavy on distraction and light on anything else: design, urban fantasy, Emma, a lot of random things that have taken my mind off...
greatish pt 24: cathartic reading, possibly fake Leonardo da Vinci, chamberpop
Hello! This week, an old article about an art scandal, a film about a Muslim American teenager, a Japanese novel, memes in Thai anti-regime protests and...
great(ish) pt 23: lacrosse teens, pretending, ghosts
Hello! This week, sports teens, politics teens, ghosts, trees. Article: The Mad, Mad World of Niche Sports Among Ivy League–Obsessed Parents by Ruth S....
great(ish) pt 22: high school, space, TikTok
Hello! This week, teen and teen-adjacent content: TikTok, a film about high school and a graphic novel about teens in space. Plus, is individual...
greatish pt 21: sweatpants, AOC, Fritz Bauer
Hello! I hope you’re well. Today, a conventional historical drama about a remarkable German prosecutor, a classic longread about the fashion industry, AOC...
great(ish) pt 20: Twister, sports journalism, Sufjan
Hello! Here's to another week of me showing heroic restraint by not telling you to watch Moneyball. Today: another classic film about people at work, an...
great(ish) pt 19: mushroom houses, Georgian dancers, plums
Hello! Today, a beautiful Georgian film, a collection of speculative fiction by writers from China and Hong Kong, a short film about maps and two articles...
great(ish) pt 18: suburban dystopia, Duolingo, lemon cake
Hello! Today, a film and a book about teens, an article about the exploitative capitalism that underpins cheap/free language learning, Amsterdam's circular...
great(ish) pt 17: places, spaces
Hello. Today: two articles on urban planning, a film about environmental racism, a novel with a strong sense of spatial identity, and a classic of urban...
great(ish) pt 16: space, bronies, Nervous Conditions
Hello! Today, as usual, fandom and politics, a film about maths and space, Tsitsi Dangarembga's classic coming-of-age novel, Italian music and a new section...
great(ish) pt 15: coffee, Ousmane Sembène, learning
Hello! Today: the history of coffee, a Senegalese film from the 60s, short stories about the lives of Malaysian women and free access to academic books and...
great(ish) pt 14: reggae, K-pop stans, rage
Hello! This tinyletter is usually meant to be an informed alternative to real life, but I've spent the last couple of weeks online in a spiral of rage, how...
great(ish) pt 13: Aragorn, borders, dancing
Hello! Today's letter is brought to you by my hormone-induced bad mood. I'm skipping my scheduled corporate feminism-related rants and am bringing you only...
great(ish) pt 12: papyri, the desert, deodorant
Hello! It's the weekend! This morning I danced around the kitchen to this song while holding my disgruntled cat and eating a vegan mushroom sausage. Today: a...
great(ish) pt 11: online consensus, Nora Ephron, relationships
Hello! Today, cyber-utopians and populist politics, ambient music, Nora Ephron and an anthology about relationships. What have *you* been watching and...