Myeongho Seo's penguin snaps, a French radio station, Ross Macdonald, Rimworld, conventionally unattractive postcards, and millennial lit.| eclecticletters.substack.com
Borges on the English language, Palacio Barolo, the paintings of Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, Betty Carter and John Hicks live in Norway, Fesenjoon, and Philip Roth's The Counterlife.| eclecticletters.substack.com
A 90s thriller scripted by Harold Pinter, Nick Cave's gruesome ballads, poodle hair arrangements, Swiss chocolates, Joshua Cohen's meta masterpiece, a noughties comedy, British craft, and Rinquinquin.| eclecticletters.substack.com
Middle-class Swedish hip-hop, Glenn O'Brien on iconoclasm, Jünger's diaries, Casa Malaparte, port, and the "Dancing Queen" vapourwave remix| Eclectic Letters
Uccello’s St George and the Dragon paintings, a Lutyens documentary, Algernon Blackwood's horror stories, Dorich House, and a great children's book| Eclectic Letters
An existential Cristian Anghelescu novel, David Beckers's short stories, an 80s true crime documentary, an experimental rock band from NYC, and a silent comedy troupe.| Eclectic Letters
A romantic restaurant under the National Portrait Gallery, a classic LRB essay, a genuinely hearty soup, the poetry of D. H. Lawrence, and The Ascension of Christ by Rembrandt.| Eclectic Letters
Exquisite equine writing, an avant-garde Simpsons episode, a Menander play, a pop song in 5/4, a literary wine book, Michael Longley's poetry, and tarragon.| Eclectic Letters
Philip Glass's "music with repetitive structures", E. P. Thompson's sci-fi novel, elephants, whales, F. W. Maitland, Norman Cantor’s Inventing the Middle Ages, and scathing academic reviews.| Eclectic Letters
Italian music videos shot by Fellini's set designer, a long-lost Malaysian pop star, the Sino-Platonic Papers, abandoned Hollywood film sets, and an intimate biography of Marlene Dietrich.| Eclectic Letters
A Victorian painting of Pompeii, Calvino's Invisible Cities, the works of Stefan Zweig, À Rebours, a Zbigniew Herbert poem, and a charming short film about the disorienting experience of first love.| Eclectic Letters
Six videos: Mozart, The Lords' Tale, a 70s pub documentary, The Aristocracy, Branagh's Henry V, and John Betjeman.| Eclectic Letters
Rilke and lockdown, a surprisingly modern forgotten thriller, a museum of “mould juice”, fried lemons, and Georgian folk.| Eclectic Letters
A classic Chet Baker record, a brilliant board game designer, a berry-ish (or not?) Pinot Noir, a philosopher with a knack for thought experiments, and the California Zephyr.| Eclectic Letters
"Double canon at the ninth!"; a time-traveling, multiversal love story; a whip-smart horror series; an overlooked film flush with career-best performances; and Sondheim's personal Passion.| Eclectic Letters
A film about a charming gang of Etruscan graverobbers, Gillian Welch's American folk-infused songs, a Marilynne Robinson novel even better than Gilead, and Rinko Kawauchi's poetic photography.| Eclectic Letters
Basil Willey's Century Series, a forgotten 60s crime thriller, ambient techno, Irish stained glass, an 80s singer-songwriter, Zwanietime!, Samuel Rogers's poetry, and memorable Unitarians| Eclectic Letters
Indian music on drum kit, compositions for player piano, the history of quantification, Dreyfus on Heidegger, Gesualdo, an old gameshow, abstraction, a Polish essayist, good pop, and Niçoise wine.| Eclectic Letters
The multidisciplinary equivalent of a great mixtape| eclecticletters.substack.com
Louis Armstrong singing “Dinah”, Wallace Stevens's Harmonium, a psychedelic 60s production of Alice in Wonderland, Smerz's woozy pop hit, Black Country New Road's new album, and Star Trek Acid Party.| eclecticletters.substack.com