Weariness Makes a Good Mattress

The battle to own the war

What happens when no one can agree about the most important event of their lives?

Mar 31 • Matthew Clayfield

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February 2026

On the anvil of history

I owe you some new writing, and I'm trying very hard to get those pieces done, but this is unfortunately one, albeit it previously unpublished, from the…

Feb 16 • Matthew Clayfield

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January 2026

Psytrance for people who can't be bothered to dance to it

Another postcard from the Parvati Valley

Jan 27 • Matthew Clayfield

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December 2025

Eerily close, the dead

Notes on Shimla, Delhi, Bondi, and James Joyce

Dec 24, 2025 • Matthew Clayfield

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The Kool-Aid in Koregaon Park

A postcard from Pune

Dec 15, 2025 • Matthew Clayfield

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Does Christopher Hitchens still matter?

Two from the archives on the anniversary of his death

Dec 10, 2025 • Matthew Clayfield

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November 2025

Ernest Hemingway would not have liked you

With additional notes on Ken Burns, Modi, Chandigarh, and Mumbai

Nov 25, 2025 • Matthew Clayfield

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To Kheerganga and back

A postcard from the Parvati Valley

Nov 20, 2025 • Matthew Clayfield

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We tell ourselves stories in order to live with ourselves

A postcard from Ubud

Nov 6, 2025 • Matthew Clayfield

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October 2025

On the road again

A new chapter

Oct 29, 2025 • Matthew Clayfield

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A wild colonial boy

Adam Lindsay Gordon in Mount Gambier and Port MacDonnell

Oct 27, 2025 • Matthew Clayfield

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Audience swallows tripe

Perhaps Trent Dalton is our Ethel M. Dell?

Oct 20, 2025 • Matthew Clayfield

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