Lochlan Bloom
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3 min readMar 30, 2018

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LLR Newsletter March — Esther Kinsky’s River… Art as a Second Language… Why Utopian Communities Fail… and more

Welcome to this month’s LLR newsletter. This round-up includes a few interesting stories, both on Medium and off.

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Books

Esther Kinsky muses on a river in England

Great review of Esther Kinsky’s new novel River. I had the chance to speak to Esther about her great new book River for a podcast I co-host and found her process fascinating. You can hear the podcast at: https://unsoundmethods.co.uk/esther-kinsky/

Creativity

Art as a Second Language

Wonderful words and images from illustrator Roman Muradov about the process of creating art and its interplay with langauge

Society

Why Utopian Communities Fail

Great piece from Areo Magazine about structure and weakness in intentional communities and Utopian experiments in living communally.

Politics

Beyond Bitcoin, Can Blockchain Technology Change the World?

A look into the role that crytpocurrency might take in shaping society beyond the first wave of innovations.

Poetry

Soft words

A poem by anna breslin

Man and Woman, Egon Schiele

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