misc reads
What's dark about dark academia? ana quiring, avidly
Necropolis, colin dickey, lapham's quarterly
Truth and consequences: documentaries and the art of manipulation, blair mcclendon, the drift
A perfectly normal interview with carmen maria machado where everything is fine, theodore mccombs, electric literature
Can rilke change your life? kamran javadizadeh, the new yorker
A winelike sea, caroline alexander, lapham's quarterly
Vanitas, jordan kisner, the paris review
September notebook, 2018, daniel poppick, the paris review
Diary of nuance, adam thirwell, the paris review
I do not keep a diary, will rees, astra magazine
The gisoo tree, mojgan ghazirad, longreads
Politics of the archive, hito steyerl, transversal texts
The sacred word, sabiha al khemir, lapham's quarterly
What a year at university of oxford taught me about south asians, sumit samos, round table india
The cult of the imperfect, umberto eco, the paris review
Is it my body, lauren collee, real life
The delhi walla's vision of a possibly vanishing india, karan mahajan, the new yorker
The genesis of blame, anne enright, london review of books
A world without men: inside south korea's 4b movement, anna louie sussman, the cut
Crime of the centuries: michael steinhardt's exile from the world of antiquities, intelligencer
Desert hours, jane miller, london review of books
Controlled: annie ernaux and the millenial sex novel, noor qasim, the drift
Roach complex, chris randie, real life
Of rivers and snakes, xiaolu guo, the dial
Crush fatigue, alexandra molotkow, real life
On lacunae. (or: reading sappho at the eschaton), j.n., einsofist (medium)
Good immigrant novels, sanjena sethian, the drift
What can ancient spiritual poetry teach us about living, kaveh akbar, harvard divinity bulletin
Approaching gridlock: arundhati roy on free speech and failing democracy, lithub
Martin amis on the genius of jane austen (and what the adaptations get wrong), lithub
Blood ritual, enzo escober, guernica
Eating and reading with katherine mansfield, aimée gasston, the public domain review
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the mistake is not you, the mistake is me for being so naive to put my all for a relationship. i thought that if i make this much effort, you'll do the same. you know they said, "if she want to, then she would." but hey i guess i'll never get that from you. just because you love me doesnt mean i feel loved by you. its not about efforts anymore. maybe you dont get it, maybe you'll never understand. i even doubt that you listen to the playlist i made for you since you didnt even realize 'the glue song' after i asked you. i dont blame you anymore. i realized that we'll never be on the same page on this. but its in the past, i didn't yearn for your love like i used to, i dont want it anymore. hey but its ok, you'll be fine and so do i. i loved you and you loved me. these pictures will be deleted after this, i want to let go. thank you, au revoir!
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Sometimes letting go was so hard that it only happened when what you held was crushed, so the fragments fell from between your still-grasping fingers.
Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World
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andrew garfield saying, “i hope this grief stays with me because it’s all the unexpressed love that i didn’t get to tell her” about his mothers passing is so gut wrenchingly beautiful because we rarely talk about the love we want to express but can’t, not because you’re not brave enough to say it out loud but because they’re not here to listen to it anymore. calling grief the love you never had the chance to share makes it less of a burden and more of something you want to keep and not something terrible you want to move on from. i love love how everything about grief always comes down to “what is grief if not love persevering?”
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