The Feckless Bellelettrist
Marco RothObservations, essays, and literary ephemera from a diffusely overeducated book critic, former lit-mag editor, and relentless amateur.
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ANDRAS SCHIFF AT THE GULBENKIAN
February 28, 2026
Andras Schiff walks out on stage wearing a buttoned-up, collarless jacket that could be velvet, trousers of some equally comfortable-looking material, a pair of soft loafers on his feet, probably suede. Rather than dressi...
Hiking With Shelley And Others
Author’s note: The following is republished here with the kind permission of the editors of Romanticon, where a partially paywalled form of this essay appeared last week. You can read the entirety here for free. If you like what you’re read...
Pas de Chat
I’ve been reading a choreographer friend’s manuscript. Whenever I read her work, I find I become hyper-attuned to my own daily gestures. One of her great gifts as a writer is to make us see the movements of our ordinary profane world with t...
Love & Resentment
The woman is lying in a hospital bed, hooked up to machines, slowly returning to consciousness. Her husband—by profession a psychoanalyst—is by her side, a kindly-seeming face emerging from a corolla of fuzzy hair. He projects a furriness t...
Tears of Things
Dawn in Lisbon, almost a year since I arrived—an emigrant, an immigrant, an expat—whatever you want to call me—somewhat digital, not a nomad—and I'm having coffee with an old friend just landed from New York after a long, difficult journey....
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Literary critic and litterateur. Self-actualizing subject of very late capitalism. Lives in Portugal.
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