May 19
The small magazine that keeps arriving
A note on the quarterly literary journal from a town in Wales that I have subscribed to for nine years.
Issue 27 · May · The feature
Issue Eleven — what I'm reading this week
A small weekly column of the essays, longreads and obscure newsletters I have actually been spending time with.
May 24, 2026 · Tomas Reinholt
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May 15
Five essays on the colour of light
A small reading list that came together by accident, on the same recurring subject from very different writers.
May 13
The newsletter economy and the quiet ones
Notes on the strange split between the famous Substack writers and the quietly excellent newsletters with three hundred subscribers.
May 12
What an archive looks like
On the small personal archives — folders of saved articles, scraps of notebooks, lists of pieces to revisit — that most readers keep without realising.
May 11
On reading on paper
After six years of trying every screen-reading optimisation I could find, the slow return to paper for the things that mattered.
May 08
The monthly rereads
A small experiment from January — six pieces, read once a month, every month, for a year. Notes from month five.
Apr 27
The poetry I keep meaning to write down
A small confession — the gap between the poems I love and the poems I have actually memorised.
Apr 22
Old issues of magazines no one keeps
On the small pleasure of reading a magazine from twelve years ago — and what is in it that the present has forgotten.
Apr 15
The piece I couldn't stop thinking about
A short note on a four-thousand-word essay from a small architecture journal — and why it has stayed with me for three months.
