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Reacher at rest
You can get a bit exhausted, sometimes, by the complexity of real life: the weight of people’s experiences and difficulties, and the way that absolutely everything, globally speaking, seems to be speeding towards disaster. Which is why, eve...
1986: Gone To Earth
Disc 1
Research by Cambridge psychologists suggests that our music taste changes as we age. In adolescence, for example, we tend to find music more important and gravitate towards more ‘intense’ genres like punk or metal.
And so it turn...
Metropolitan Mixtape: April 2026
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017)
There are not many movies in the Letterboxd Diary this month because I have suffered a relapse of an old addiction: I have gone adventuring in Hyrule again.
For the uninitiated, The Legend...
The Pitt: progressives in despair
SPOILER WARNING:
The Pitt was first broadcast in the US 18 months ago, but thanks to the perverse incentives of competing streaming services it has only just become available in the UK. This piece contains some spoilers, including for lat...
Lake Wobegon Days (1986)
Part history, part reminiscence, and part short story collection focused on Lake Wobegon, a fictional small town somewhere in the overlooked middle of Minnesota, in the overlooked middle of America, in the overlooked middle of life. Lake Wo...
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