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Speak, Institutional Memory!
Nabokov at the New Yorker
Jun 6
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May 2025
A Great Time for Personal Narrative
Just like 1863
May 14
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April 2025
Don't Worry, Baby
Help from the Beach Boys
Apr 25
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Vanishing World bonus
Bonus content for paid subscribers... plus: a functional link!
Apr 8
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The Scambusters
My Sayaka Murata profile is out in the world... along with a "dire wolf."
Apr 7
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February 2025
In Dark Times, What is the Artist's Role?
Elif Batuman on writing, protest, couples therapy, and what happens when the loveless come to power.
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1984
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Feb 13
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January 2025
The "Debate over Pure Literature"
New (to me) intel on novels, from Japan
Jan 22
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December 2024
James Baldwin Makes the World Feel Bigger
Here's to 100 years of 1924
Dec 10, 2024
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November 2024
Love Letter
An optimism post disguised as a short-story post
Nov 11, 2024
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October 2024
On Being Butthurt
Writers' notebooks, "privilege," lugubriousness, and more
Oct 21, 2024
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Places you have no reason to be
...or do you?
Oct 10, 2024
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