Editorial OneEssays on reading, attention, and the craft of slow thinking.https://editorial-one.devoco.studio/On the small republic of attentionhttps://editorial-one.devoco.studio/essays/small-republic-of-attention/https://editorial-one.devoco.studio/essays/small-republic-of-attention/Notes on reading and refusing — and what a year of slowness asks of the people who insist on still thinking in paragraphs.Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTCRITICISMThe library that was lost to algorithmshttps://editorial-one.devoco.studio/essays/library-lost-to-algorithms/https://editorial-one.devoco.studio/essays/library-lost-to-algorithms/What we lose when discovery happens for us — a small history of finding things on purpose.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTESSAYSLetters from a slow cityhttps://editorial-one.devoco.studio/essays/letters-from-a-slow-city/https://editorial-one.devoco.studio/essays/letters-from-a-slow-city/A correspondence with a place that refuses to be efficient, and the argument it makes against the clock.Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTLETTERSHow one should read a bookhttps://editorial-one.devoco.studio/essays/how-one-should-read-a-book/https://editorial-one.devoco.studio/essays/how-one-should-read-a-book/After Woolf: the only advice worth giving a reader is to take no advice at all — and why that is harder than it sounds.Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTCRITICISMOn refusal and the readerhttps://editorial-one.devoco.studio/essays/on-refusal-and-the-reader/https://editorial-one.devoco.studio/essays/on-refusal-and-the-reader/There is a kind of attention that begins by saying no. An essay on what we decline in order to read well.Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTESSAYSNotes on the weather of attentionhttps://editorial-one.devoco.studio/essays/weather-of-attention/https://editorial-one.devoco.studio/essays/weather-of-attention/Concentration is a climate, not a switch. Short observations on the conditions under which thinking happens.Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTNOTESWalking, and the argument against arrivalhttps://editorial-one.devoco.studio/essays/argument-against-arrival/https://editorial-one.devoco.studio/essays/argument-against-arrival/After Thoreau: a defence of the road that does not lead anywhere in particular, written for people in a hurry.Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTESSAYSSelf-reliance, reconsideredhttps://editorial-one.devoco.studio/essays/self-reliance-reconsidered/https://editorial-one.devoco.studio/essays/self-reliance-reconsidered/After Emerson: what the most over-quoted essay in the language actually asks of a working writer.Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTCRITICISMPolitics and the English languagehttps://editorial-one.devoco.studio/essays/politics-and-the-english-language/https://editorial-one.devoco.studio/essays/politics-and-the-english-language/After Orwell: a re-reading of the rules, and a quiet disagreement with the most famous of them.Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMTCRITICISMA letter to a younger editorhttps://editorial-one.devoco.studio/essays/letter-to-a-younger-editor/https://editorial-one.devoco.studio/essays/letter-to-a-younger-editor/On the difference between fixing a sentence and improving it, and why the second one takes a career to learn.Thu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 GMTLETTERSNotes toward a quiet practicehttps://editorial-one.devoco.studio/essays/notes-toward-a-quiet-practice/https://editorial-one.devoco.studio/essays/notes-toward-a-quiet-practice/The first essay in the archive — a short manifesto for writing that does not raise its voice.Sat, 15 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMTNOTES