The Emigre 11/30/25 The Emigre 11/30/25

Less of that!

Emigre writers tell us about the gifts they wish would just stop giving. *UPDATED SPORADICALLY FROM DECEMBER 1 THROUGH TO DECEMBER 24*

Timothy E Popple 9/7/25 Timothy E Popple 9/7/25

Good (Animal-Named) Pubs Near Cathedrals

A partial list for after Evensong.

Nathan Koblintz 8/31/24 Nathan Koblintz 8/31/24

Twelve Sinhala Sayings Rendered into English

ඉබි පිහාටු : Nathan Koblintz indulges in the proverbial.

Seth Burkett 7/14/24 Seth Burkett 7/14/24

Spotify Sundays: Seth Burkett on a Footballing Life

Can England beat Spain in the Euros final? Seth Burkett takes soundings from a personal history of footballing optimism.

ASH Smyth 5/19/24 ASH Smyth 5/19/24

Every VHS Tape I Have Owned

From Aladdin to William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Aug Stone 4/29/24 Aug Stone 4/29/24

Apple Music Mondays: Hairy Beasts Playlist

A playlist by Aug Stone, inspired by his new collection of stories, Sporting Moustaches.

Calo Baba 2/14/24 Calo Baba 2/14/24

My Unconscious Biases

Sentences from my new book flagged for correction by the Inclusiveness Editor in Microsoft Word. (With suggested corrections.)

ASH Smyth 2/6/24 ASH Smyth 2/6/24

Peruvenirs

Full inventory of souvenirs and other purchases from my trip to Lima and environs, last December.

Nathan Koblintz 1/15/24 Nathan Koblintz 1/15/24

Books I Judged By Their Covers (In Order Of How Mistaken I Was)

A bibliophile confesses.

The Emigre 12/18/23 The Emigre 12/18/23

All I Want for Christmas is... Books!

UPDATED DAILY from December 1 through to December 24, Emigre writers on the books they would be happy to receive for Christmas.

James Joyce 11/30/23 James Joyce 11/30/23

Erratica

Upon thorough exagmination, a complete list of the misprints in my Finnegans Wake.

Joel Rapp 9/30/23 Joel Rapp 9/30/23

Bizarre Finnish pizzas I've tried lately, in reverse order of how pleasant the surprise was (with tasting notes)

Strawberry, reindeer, trout + more.

Anonymous 9/25/23 Anonymous 9/25/23

Just some of the books I found by searching for ‘medieval’ in the Oxfam online shop last week, during a work call—in ascending order of price

From masturbation and monsters to floor tiles and marriage sermons.

ASH Smyth 9/6/23 ASH Smyth 9/6/23

Wilko, out—52 branches of the discount homewares store slated to close next week

From Brownhills to Winsford, plus many more.

ASH Smyth 6/18/23 ASH Smyth 6/18/23

All the words in Michael Chabon's GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD I had to look up (not incl. placenames—kind of—or the Afterword)

From myna and shatranj to Chorpan and termagant.

Dominic Hilton 3/20/23 Dominic Hilton 3/20/23

All the places in Buenos Aires I have eaten tostados de jamón y queso in the past fortnight

From bares notables to the backseat of a girlfriend’s car.

Anna Lou Larkin 3/12/23 Anna Lou Larkin 3/12/23

Wines I didn't drink last year while up the Hilary (in ascending order of regret)

From Sainsbury’s Côtes du Rhône to Olivier Leflaire Puligny-Montrachet Enseignères.

ASH Smyth 3/4/23 ASH Smyth 3/4/23

All the books in the library of the Concordia Bay ferry from East to West Falkland (and vice versa), as at 25.3.23

From Confessions of an Opium-Eater to The Complete Vegetable Grower.