Armchair Euro Fakeation: A European Reading List for Summer 2026
Twenty books of summer spanning Hungary, Ireland, the Calabrian coast, a Swiss mental institution, wartime Berlin, and a crumbling Tuscan villa. The Europe that didn't make the brochure.
Reflections on Spain My Way: Eat, Drink, and Cook Like a Spaniard
My reading notes from this book, gathered across several encounters. Ideas that resonated, arguments that stayed with me, moments worth returning to.
Reflections on When I Sing, Mountains Dance
My reading notes from this book, gathered across several encounters—ideas that resonated, arguments that stayed with me, moments worth returning to.
Mammoth by Eva Baltasar
Reducing life to an Excel spreadsheet felt like a crime. I hated my tool, the specialist axe I used to cut up emotions and memories, the experience and suffering of those people who, at the end of the day, had somehow persuaded life to put up with them all those years.