Dream of a Rarebit Fiend

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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Hemingway's Jewish Boxer

Robert Cohn, Harold Loeb, and The Sun Also Rises

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September 2025

Minor Characters: Napoleon Bonaparte

The tyrant as vibe

Sep 25 • 

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History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake

Political violence and historical fiction

Sep 12 • 

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Minor Characters: Pretty Jagiello

The Gentleman's Relish

Sep 7 • 

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August 2025

Minor Characters: Louisa the Spy

Who's laughing now?

Aug 24 • 

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A Map of Jack Aubrey's Port Mahon

Created by Conor O'Neill

Aug 21

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Minor Characters: Canning, the Jew

The other as mirror in Post Captain and HMS Surprise

Aug 11 • 

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July 2025

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!

Jul 30 • 

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Truth, beauty, and ChatGPT

What Richard Hugo and the Romantics have to teach us about poetry and AI

Jul 20 • 

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A Bit of a Want

Friendship and salvation in Hear My Song (1991)

Jul 14 • 

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June 2025

Sing of Human Unsuccess

Making it with Proust, Kafka, and Clifford Odets

Jun 30 • 

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