I'll be teaching my first course for the @faberacademy.bsky.social during the last week of August. Focus is on the personal essay. If there's something you've been longing to write, but dallying, put it off no longer. faberacademy.com/tutors/marin...

my father looking at his own River Styx days before he died at home. A long long life lived on his own terms. This mid-winter a blessing from his fierce atheist spirit, saying live on, love on, in all the complexity of the relationship between father and daughter. hamba kahle

Scotland

Heading into NYC for a live shot, and this is the sign on one of the overpasses

We are all, at times, horribly tired of being ourselves. Djuna Barnes (and also me!)

People think money has ruined football but the sight of a rapist dictator standing next to a corrupt football official in front of a big gold trophy at a competition bankrolled by Saudi Arabia reminds me the game still belongs to us.

At our demonstration today, I'm holding a placard stating "I support Palestine. Action must be taken." My aim is to highlight the absurdity of the government dictating what can and cannot be said by peace-seeking people

Give the public what they want! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Love this. Larry the cat.. and Macron

Lucy Culliton, contemporary Australian artist, known for her paintings of landscapes and still lifes #WomensArt

Someone prove this wrong.

jirre vok! if you were South African you would ABSOLUTELY know what kind of day its been

EVERYBODY on the internet planet who had never heard of them before HAS now heard of the Irish rappers KNEECAP and of some random punk people called (brilliantly I have to say) BOB VILLIAN and is now listening to them thanks to BBC censorship anxieties and flip-flops at Glastonbury

I'm excited to be running a 5-day course for the @faberacademy.bsky.social on Crafting the Personal Essay. Last week of August. Online. A chance to act and write that essay that won't leave you alone. faberacademy.com/product/craf...

People think I'm biased against Jeff Bezos, but here's Sartoria F. Caraceni, widely considered one of the best bespoke tailoring houses in the world, commenting on Bezos's wedding suit. "The most terrible, frightening, horrible tuxedo ever seen in my life. I'm really suffering"

Lauren Sanchez et al totally offend all my eyes and fashion senses. The weird big boob Barbie -in-formaldahyde look is frightening: a gondola zombie apocalypse

Two paths diverged in a wood and America took the psychopath.

Justice Sotomayor dissenting on birthright citizenship case: "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent."

overwhelmed with gratitude that I am NOT at Glastonbury - given my pathological phobia of crowds, port-a-loos and competing sound systems also these rude radishes from the garden

New York City’s probable next mayor will be the first in history to have attended St George’s Grammar School in Cape Town, an Anglican school in Mowbray.

how many sleeps till Donald Trump is GONE

Women writers in Afghanistan are subject to the harshest living conditions and censorship. This essay on Forced marriage was a joy to work on, in collaboration with @untold-narratives.bsky.social. aeon.co/essays/the-s...

MEN & BIRDS Dont know who made this work of utter documentary genius but I found it in my old photo file and had to share

a world gripped by violent and stupid and narcisstiic old men who think they are playing a video game is not a good one for those of us who align with the 'women and children' side of live

summer flowers picked for solstice

summer flowers picked for solstice

writer's block

the most ominous words in the entire domestic lexicon are BREAKFAST IS READY

WONDERFUL NEWS

husband doing his cool writer thing mg.co.za/friday/2025-...

Private Eye exposing again the utter idiocy of our politics. This sums up *exactly* how Farage and Reform get rocket-boosted by a media, drunk on sensationalist nonsense. Unserious and irresponsible but it’ll be up to us to prove them wrong.

slaying my deadline like Judith did Holofernes - all hail to Artemesia Gentileschi

I have such cabin fever - writing cabin fever

Watching TV is good bad indifferent

is nuclear war in Europe immanent Yes No

It is so hard to be a person

NOBODY ON THE PLANET believes this - not even people on the Platform Formerly Known as Twitter

I know I should take this seriously but this ICE tweet genuinely made me laugh.

You're not burning my copies, those are too precious! Tho burn everything down and start afresh always is a tempting idea...

Don’t do it, Margie. Remember Kali.

all week I have been fighting the impulse to burn all the books I have ever written. Every single word - I want to see it go up in a binfire of the vanities. Every book, every word turned into heat and light and then gone. Ash

reunion with niece, nephew and Lion's Head clouds

MOOD!!!!!

with my baby-love - I never imagined such devoted attunement with anyone until this, my first, grandchild appeared

What's wrong with formula story-telling? From genre fiction to Hollywood blockbusters.... they are fundamentally dishonest, says @elianeglaser.bsky.social aeon.co/essays/why-d...

They are now officially known as the Voetsekkers.