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Quotes from Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection
On air b&b's being fake...
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Quotes from Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection
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Quotes From Muriel Spark's Symposium
On being quiet and catholicism...
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Quotes from Emma van Staaten's Creep
On obsession, Plato's soulmates and just feeling sick while reading this...
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Quotes from Sarah Rose Etter's Ripe
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How I Write Critically
On the critical piece never being the one you intended to write...
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Books That Feel Like Old Friends
On 5 pieces of literature that I could read time and time again...
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Quotes From Muriel Spark's Symposium
On being quiet and catholicism...
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Literature's Most Insufferable Mother?
On Jeanette's Winterson's mother-daughter dynamics in Oranges are Not the Only Fruit...
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Quotes from Emma van Staaten's Creep
On obsession, Plato's soulmates and just feeling sick while reading this...
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How I Write Critically
On the critical piece never being the one you intended to write...
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How to spot circular reasoning?
On the philosophy of circular reasoning and how to spot it in everyday conversations...
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Welcome to Substack Uni
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My Autumn Syllabus (and how to study when you have a 9-5)
On what I want to self-study in Autumn and how I schedule this in when I have a full time job...
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Beware of Pity Reading List
On the critical reading I aim to do around Stefan Zweig’s Beware of Pity...
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Morning Coffee Reads - 21.09.2025
On the 7 articles I read this week and 7 more for next week...
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Morning Coffee Reads - 14.09.2025
On the 7 articles I plan to read next week...
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