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Newsletter · By Adam Smyth · Official site

Indexed issues, last 90 days
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Sep 21, 2026
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Aug 1, 2026

Latest issues

  1. Issue · Sep 21, 2026

    Time / wasp (opens the original)

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    I am moving offices at work and in the process of discarding stacks of old papers I come across a draft of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 126 that I printed 10 years ago with Gill and Dennis for an exhibition at the Bodleian Library. The final edition looked like this.<s

  2. Issue · Sep 3, 2026

    Be part of a film! (opens the original)

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    <img alt="Eyewear, White, Photograph, Glasses, Black-and-white, Sunglasses, Photography, Monochrome, Sitting, Vision care, " class="sizing-normal" height="250.859375" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FC7h!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/h

  3. Issue · Aug 1, 2026

    O. (opens the original)

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    I met O. during my first week at university – his sarcasm felt immediately reassuring – and we were very close friends in our 20s and 30s. I lived with him for a while in the early noughties when I wasn’t sure what I was doing. Here is a photo of what is possibly a New Year’s Eve party around 2000 – it’s amazing how hard it is to be exact – with O. in glasses: we’re in the middle of some kind of drinking game.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/

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