October 2025
Extra books/links/whatever from this month. (Only three this time around.)
Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov. Here’s a reminder that less widely read Nabokov was still written by Nabokov.
Beetle on a Blade by Paul Spring
How the world’s most expensive colors are made (H/T Lines and Colors)
A dispatch from under the local rock
Trump brokered a peace deal in the war between Israel and Hamas. Israel has pulled forces out of Gaza (or maybe parts thereof?), and Israeli hostages have returned home.
Trump also visited East Asia.
Laszlo Krasznahorkai won the 2025 Nobel prize in literature.
There will be communal and regional elections in Denmark on November 18th.