For a while I have thought about the idea of access. 

Access to culture, to connection, access to good coffee, stimulating conversation and other enticing jibber jabber. How do we achieve access to things when we are disparate? Separated by so many inevitable albeit imaginary boundaries. Cultural, verbal, societal. Literal seas can separate us, I want access.

I want access to the thoughts I would never think. The songs I would never hear, the books written in obscure corners of rural France, the songs crafted in basements of best friends, the thoughts shared in temples of the devout. I want access, and I want to share it with you. 

Within the internet we are drip fed fragmented & contrived (sorry internet)access through links and transactional suggestions. 

This is not the access I yearn for. I want to know what you, dear reader, are reading. I want to hear about the fabric you’re obsessed with, the full cream latte you tasted in a small farmhouse in the countryside, the song that sent you into climax. I want to hear about your world. 

Books are access, they are a world of ideas that belong to a stranger, that become a friend. Whether you enjoy the book or not, you are brought within the ideas and concepts of another, and to understand these ideas, is to be our most enlightened.

Your access, weekly.

• The student artwork coming out of @beauxartparis art school, who often have DIY art shows in Paris. There are some incredible student artists, worth taking note.

• Preloved leather bags, well made to haul your tokens around the city

• Tom Stoppard plays. A recent loss, Tom Stoppard was an incredible playwright, whose erudition and curiosity turned philosophy and history into lively sifting of human folly. Below are some of his most notable plays.

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD

Two minor characters drift through Hamlet, discovering that chance, language, and fate have already written them out.

JUMPERS

A philosophical farce in which ethical certainty performs gymnastics, with predictably destabilising results.

ARCADIA

Across centuries, mathematics, desire, and landscape reveal how knowledge accumulates while people repeat themselves.

LEOPOLDSTADT

A family charts its careful assimilation, only to be overtaken by the history it trusted.

TRAVESTIES

Art, revolution, and theatrical nonsense collide as modernism is filtered through a charmingly unreliable witness.

ARTIST DESCENDING A STAIRCASE

A playful investigation into a death that exposes how sound, memory, and perception deceive.