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The homunculus of shame, with a perhaps surprising excursus on Richard Linklater's Blue Moon.
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Hemingway's Jewish Boxer
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On Not Reading Jonathan Franzen
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Meeting John Cheever
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Sing of Human Unsuccess
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Minor Characters: Napoleon Bonaparte
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History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake
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The Poet's Novels
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Minor Characters: The Fantastical Mr. Fox
The homunculus of shame, with a perhaps surprising excursus on Richard Linklater's Blue Moon.
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Minor Characters: Napoleon Bonaparte
The tyrant as vibe
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The Gentleman's Relish
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Minor Characters: Louisa the Spy
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A Map of Jack Aubrey's Port Mahon
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Truth, beauty, and ChatGPT
What Richard Hugo and the Romantics have to teach us about poetry and AI
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De-transcendence, baby
Our political-aesthetic problem
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The Clod and the Cloud
Techno-optimism and its discontents; or, a brief memoir of my time in Silicon Valley.
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Hemingway's Jewish Boxer
Robert Cohn, Harold Loeb, and The Sun Also Rises
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Sing of Human Unsuccess
Making it with Proust, Kafka, and Clifford Odets
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No Action
History, the novel, and the historical novel, with special reference to Brandon Taylor, Ross Barkan, and Elvis Costello
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The Adorable Weakness of James Schuyler
Against the vibe shift
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Minor Characters: The Fantastical Mr. Fox
The homunculus of shame, with a perhaps surprising excursus on Richard Linklater's Blue Moon.
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History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake
Political violence and historical fiction
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A Bit of a Want
Friendship and salvation in Hear My Song (1991)
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That Gum You Like
David Lynch will never go out of style
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The hawthorns
between telling and showing
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Concord, Chapter 12
Are you my mother?
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Concord, Chapter 11
Breakfast at the Walden Cafe
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Concord, Chapter 10
Higher ground
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On Writing
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Hemingway's Jewish Boxer
Robert Cohn, Harold Loeb, and The Sun Also Rises
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History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake
Political violence and historical fiction
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Truth, beauty, and ChatGPT
What Richard Hugo and the Romantics have to teach us about poetry and AI
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Sing of Human Unsuccess
Making it with Proust, Kafka, and Clifford Odets
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History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake
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Minor Characters: Louisa the Spy
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A Map of Jack Aubrey's Port Mahon
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Minor Characters: Canning, the Jew
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Return Voyage: HMS Surprise
The face of authority in O'Brian's most characteristic novel, and the first post of the newly consttuted Aubrey-Maturin Review!
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Truth, beauty, and ChatGPT
What Richard Hugo and the Romantics have to teach us about poetry and AI
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A Bit of a Want
Friendship and salvation in Hear My Song (1991)
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