Archive - Paradise Almanac

The Happy Merchant

Influence is always a relationship between living beings.

May 7 •

Matthew Spencer

April 2025

March 2025

Stepping Outside the Brackets

On David Jones and Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Mar 28 •

Matthew Spencer

Caspar David Friedrich at the Met #1

"Nothing can be sadder and more disconcerting than this position in the world: the only spark of life in the vast realm of death, the lonely center of a…

Mar 21 •

Matthew Spencer

Whither Literature?

Like a delicious tart from Limousin

Mar 13 •

Matthew Spencer

Hatred of the Ocean

Affrayed in the old Edmund Spenser sense

Mar 7 •

Matthew Spencer

February 2025

January 2025

A Great Friend to the Reality of Things

On Late Summer by Adalbert Stifter

Jan 31 •

Matthew Spencer

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