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...
great(ish) pt 10: millennial women, Disobedience, more music
Hello! Today, an article about millennial women in art, a rainy London film, two excellent books about growing up in Nazi Germany, and rediscovering Aimee...
great(ish) pt 9: wine, Magic, buns and Napoleon (again)
Hello! I was asked just now if I'll continue writing this newsletter as things change, and the answer is: you bet. Today, an article and a film about how...
great(ish) pt 8: rebel architecture, Captain America, fate (again)
Hello! It's Friday! Today I'm recommending the best superhero franchise film of all time, one of my favourite writers, a great essay on religion and drugs,...
great(ish) pt 7: Marie Antoinette, Harry Potter, Dakar
Hello! I'm back again because I thought you might be craving some benign content. Today: a beautiful film set in Dakar, saucy French cartoons, one of my...
great(ish) pt 6: scams, metres, baking
Hello! Today: the scam of all scams, the most soothing Youtube content of all time, plus some all-time favourites – 1) the history of the metre and 2) a...
great(ish) pt 5: museums, rom-coms, Alexander the Great
Hello! Today: decolonising museums, a favourite mediocre rom-com, classic historical novels about Alexander the Great and my one and only attempt to become a...
great(ish) pt 4: terrible brands, Jimmy Stewart, my favourite podcast
Hello! Today: a movie double bill about political corruption, feminism as a brand, my favourite sad male author and... a podcast about celebrities. Plus, the...
great(ish) pt 3: stars, hands, ants
Hello! Today: getting to the bottom of why all my friends know what their star signs say about them... plus a beautiful French film about a severed hand, an...
great(ish) pt 2: Arctic crime, Edith Wharton, an architecture indie film
Hello! I've decided to send this email out whenever I feel like it, because I reckon we all need more inane, friendly content in our inboxes right now. Here...
great(ish) pt 1: soothing content ONLY!
Hello! This is where I share things that I enjoy: my backlog of articles about awful millennial start-ups and remote Arctic towns; nice books that don't make...