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Jan 21, 2024 • 
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Love & Resentment
Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt” and the rise of the Beta Ubermensch
Nov 5 • 
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Tears of Things
Domestic Epic/Epic Domestic
Aug 25 • 
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Notes on Saramago and Competing Contemporary Regimes of Literacy
I'm trying to read Jose Saramago's History of the Siege of Lisbon (in translation) and it's going terribly.
Aug 7 • 
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PROUST ENCORE
A Past Self Meets Other Past Selves
Jun 30 • 
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Brodkey in the Wilderness
Harold Brodkey's "This Wild Darkness" found me at last, after many years of my successful ducking.
Jun 16 • 
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American Reconquista
Around the Alcazar of Jerez de la Frontera
Apr 16 • 
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Lisbon Dispatch
A time of gifts
Mar 18 • 
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The Feckless Bellelettrist
The Feckless Bellelettrist
Observations, essays, and literary ephemera, from a diffusely overeducated book critic, former lit-mag editor, and relentless amateur.
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