Methought - September/2025

Monthly wrap-up: Cormac McCarthy's cowboys, trying to understand poetry and Derrida, PTA's sinister and ridiculous revolution, Jeanne Dielman's boring…

Oct 11 • 

Julia Sampaio

7

Does the Artist have to Leave?

"I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race" - A…

Oct 6 • 

Julia Sampaio

9

September 2025

Favourite Books from a Very Critical Person - part 2

It's so hard to make a list of favourites

Sep 30 • 

Julia Sampaio

18

5

Methought - August/2025

Monthly wrap-up: read the best book of the year so far (and two others that were not so good), yet another Rowlands/Cassavetes film, my first Bergman…

Sep 17 • 

Julia Sampaio

15

4

August 2025

Um Homem Civilizado

Ficção Nº2

Aug 24 • 

Julia Sampaio

15

8

Methought - July/2025

Monthly wrap-up: falling in love with James Joyce again, new favourite french films, rereading Jane Austen, the difficulty of defining literature, and…

Aug 12 • 

Julia Sampaio

15

July 2025

Favourite Books from a Very Critical Person - part 1

It's hard for me to consider a book a favourite. Let's discuss the ones that made the list

Jul 30 • 

Julia Sampaio

58

2

Methought - June/2025

monthly wrap-up: first time watching Fellini at the movie theatre, rereading Shakespeare and Tolkien, Robert Walser and Henry Miller talking about art…

Jul 14 • 

Julia Sampaio

18

2

June 2025

Victorian Literature - Reading Guide #2

How to start reading Victorian Literature: novels, poetry, annotation systems, critical reading syllabus, research material, etc.

Jun 18 • 

Julia Sampaio

177

12

Methought - May/2025

monthly wrap-up: rereading Shakespeare and T.S. Eliot, giving Forster a second chance, humanities crisis with Kristeva, revisiting Freud's Uncanny…

Jun 2 • 

Julia Sampaio

22

3

May 2025

Indiscriminate and Erratic

An essay on writing diaries

May 19 • 

Julia Sampaio

26

5

30 books before 30

I'm not turning 30 yet ok this is just a long-term plan calm down.

May 13 • 

Julia Sampaio

806

26