What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Disease of Boredom’ by Josefa Ros Velasco

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Updated 01 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Disease of Boredom’ by Josefa Ros Velasco

Boredom visits all of us at some point. Sometimes it is fleeting. Other times it is deep, lasting, or profound. We even experience it in groups.

Boredom can be so intolerable that some are willing to do almost anything just to escape it. In this provocative and eloquently argued book, Josefa Ros Velasco invites us to listen to the voice of boredom, explore the reasons behind it, and allow it to guide our actions and return us to a place of satisfaction.

She shows how boredom is a phenomenon that torments us when reality does not meet our expectations.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Writer’s Room’ by Katie Da Cunha Lewin

Updated 01 March 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Writer’s Room’ by Katie Da Cunha Lewin

Virginia Woolf famously wrote in “A Room of One’s Own” that “it is necessary to have 500 a year and a room with a lock on the door if you are to write fiction or poetry.”

Writers have worked in all kinds of places, from garrets and sheds to boarding houses, bathrooms, and even while on the move.

What is it that fascinates us about the writer’s room? This book takes readers inside literature’s creative spaces to explore this tantalizing question.