We’re closed to catch up on summer reading, prep for Art Toronto and get new shop stock. We’ve had some lovely drop-in appointments, so if you’re in London drop us a line to visit the bookshop. We’re pleased to stock @blank_cheque’s Ecstatic Essays pamphlets, which offer nuanced opinions on obscure topics in arts & culture. Pictured: Casey Wei writes of director Ozu, Jenine Marsh addresses the sculptor Alina Szapocznikow, and David Bradford writes on novelist Nell Zink. "I honestly just think Ozu wasn’t regarded as very cool to the young filmmakers growing up in post-war Japan. Mundane anecdotal family dramas that pulled on the repressed and buried emotions of guilt, piety, resentment, genocide, and so on, were not cool. Aging was again, not cool. [...] But in the case of Ozu, I think of the long game." (at DNA)