FYI #66
Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts review – powerful, poignant and suffused with millennial dread, via the Guardian. Looking forward to reading Madeleine Watts’ new book.
Tim Winton: Labor hasn’t delivered on more effective nature laws. It’s not just embarrassing, it’s calamitous, via the Guardian… ‘Elections aren’t our only opportunity to disrupt and destroy business at usual, but they’re a good place to begin.’
Bone Into Stone: On translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses, by Jhumpa Lahiri, via The Dial… ‘At a certain point, the ‘sacred stone’ of the source text must be cast behind my back so as to give birth to a new version in a new language in a new moment in time.’
Computing Commons: Designing public compute for people and society, via the Ada Lovelace Institute
Deborah Treisman's "A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker", via LARB Radio Hour
The Neuroscience of Confidence | Ian Robertson, via 10% Happier with Dan Harris
Program:Changing Australia: Ben Quilty on fighting for the future of Australia's artists, via Radio National Breakfast
The garden trends to know for 2025, via House & Garden
A new podcast from Joshua Citarella, Yancey Strickler, and Metalabel: New Creative Era.
Condensing The Iceberg, by Steven Johnson
A Tiny Press Took a Big Risk on Experimental Books. It Paid Off, via the New York Times. ‘Tilted Axis Press is an independent publisher of contemporary literature by the Global Majority, translated into or written in a variety of Englishes.’
Looking forward to participating (online) in RightsCon25, happening in Taipei, February 24 - 27
A 28sqm/301sqft Loft in Melbourne Redefines Compact, Sustainable Living, via Never Too Small