Country People
The urban-rural divide did not just happen: it was the result of specific, historical processes.
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Twilight of the Boosters
On Tom Perrotta’s post-millennial suburban humanism.
Dog Poetry
By 1927 Rinty was designated “the most popular performer in the U.S.” but was also named as the correspondent in a divorce.
Paperback Writers: Arthur Machen
H.P. Lovecraft has been regarded as a classic for at least twenty years now; Machen, too, deserves his place in the corrupting sun.
Discovering Tight Clothing
If this sounds like the setup for a sweet love story, it is not.
Growing Up
Each new episode more outlandish than the one before.
The Most Versatile of Mystics
On insiders, outsiders, and the debate over Sri Ramakrishna’s sexuality.
Honey and the Long Haul
The public fascination with honeybee loss, however, might have a small silver lining.
Criticism of Criticism of Criticism
Liberalism in Flight: Cowboys, Fugitives, and Political Philosophy
This negative and lonely freedom allows the stranger to move through social groups while remaining free from their constraints.
Advertisements for Norman Mailer
Mailer's false accents — Texas, Patrician, boxer-tough — are like Orson Welles's false noses.
Counter-Culture Colophon Part II: Grove Press in the 1960s
The second installment of Glass’s history of
Barney Rosset’s legendary publishing empire.
King of the Contrarians: Chuck Eddy’s “Rock and Roll Always Forgets”
For Eddy, recognizing a revolution often means writing like a revolution, with whatever messiness and tedium that implies.
The Writer's Jukebox: An Interview with Chuck Eddy
I get mad at people who say I’m a contrarian. That’s honestly not where I come from.
Eternal Forgetting: Imre Kertész's "Fiasco"
There is satire here, but Cohen is also crafting a complex argument about the perils of Holocaust writing.
A Europe Full of Animals
Glossy magazines full of advice on how to improve ourselves will never eradicate the primordial within us.