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Good dogs, cold beer, hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties
The special forces dog is such a silly figure in fascist American aesthetics.
There’s not all that much to say, in truth, about the Brad Pitt vehicle Heart of the Beast, which came out to fine reviews and a whatever performance at the box...
Ridley Scott? More like Midley Scott, am I right fellas?
Despite not liking dogs, I sure do find myself writing about them a lot.
When I started writing this a month ago I intended it to be a quick hit on The Dog Stars and frontier narratives. It was supposed to be accompanied a week later by a...
The Rat and the Romans
In freshman history class feeling like Jacques-Louis David
Today we have a roughly 5,000 word short story titled The Rat and the Romans. This is the last of the pre-MFA lit fic stories I have stashed away in a drawer. (I do have a Hallowee...
Is the American Empire declining?
Washington, 2126. The Course of Empire (Thomas Cole)
I keep a bronze penny in my desk drawer dating to the reign of Flavius Claudius Julianus, better known as Julian the Apostate. He was the last of the Constantinian dynasty and the last o...
I was wrong about Rachel Kushner
i didn’t plan to spend half of 2026 reading about Italian fascism, but here we are.
A while back I wrote an essay on the tense and verb choices (too many gerunds and participles!) in Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake, a book I did not like ve...
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