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Uncanny, Pitch-Perfect Awfulness
John Wilson’s year in fiction.
Jan 21
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Are Writers Too Chummy?
Also: On Eastern scripts, when Norman Podhoretz met Robert Silvers, the plight of Japanese lacquer artists, France’s next Michel Houellebecq, and more.
Jan 19
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Micah Mattix
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Saturday Links
The cult of Knausgaard, the soullessness of modern publishing, in praise of guidebooks, a history of the dandy, and more.
Jan 17
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Micah Mattix
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The “The Hollow Men” at 100
Aug 8, 2025
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Micah Mattix
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What Am I Doing Here?
Jul 16, 2022
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Micah Mattix
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“Flannery’s People Were Two Kinds of Trash”
Mar 26, 2025
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Micah Mattix
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Aug 31, 2024
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Micah Mattix
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Ezra Pound, Off and On Base
May 27, 2024
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Micah Mattix
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Remembering Jane Greer
Jul 26, 2025
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Micah Mattix
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Over-intellectualizing pop culture, on taking literary risks, the 50-year-old search for a stolen Jackson Pollock, staying in Jack Kerouac’s home, and…
Jan 14
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Micah Mattix
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The late friendship of T. S. Eliot and C. S. Lewis, on growing old, simulating Molière, the world of London’s first theater, and more.
Jan 10
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Micah Mattix
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Have the Philistines Taken Over the Culture?
Also: James Cameron’s shallow “Avatar” films, remembering the editor of “More,” the role of philosophy in life, and more.
Jan 7
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Micah Mattix
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Monday Links
Tolstoy’s last novel, the end of the Southern accent, in praise of Havel, the end of the Beatles, ancient synagogues in Palestine, and more.
Jan 5
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Micah Mattix
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Saturday Links
Making a living as a joke writer, the decline of the New Yorker, an “Autumn in the Ramapo Valley” on view, Salman Rushdie’s funny stories, and more.
Jan 3
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Micah Mattix
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Caravaggio’s life and work, Renoir’s drawings, a history of Europe’s first orphanage, how Allen Levi’s self-published novel became a hit, and more.
Dec 31, 2025
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Micah Mattix
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Christmas Ghosts and Murders
Also: Remembering David Pryce-Jones, a history of central Europe, looted church bells, the world frankincense shortage, and more.
Dec 29, 2025
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Micah Mattix
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