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‘Anna Karenina’ and depressive crises
Tolstoy at a train station, 1909, photographer unknown.
To start, Anna Karenina is very good. An all-timer, even. Leo Tolstoy does some crazy things in that book with character and narrative perspective. It’s the pinnacle of bourgeois psyc...
4 things No One has said about Nolan’s 'Odyssey'
Stunt cliches. Siege warfare. Star Wars prequel dialogue. Heinrich Schliemann.
This one’s a day late because I had to cover 11 earnings calls and two diarrhea epidemics for my day job.
It’s no use just being beautiful
Curzio Malaparte a long time after visiting the Soroca brothel.
This one’s no fun.
Earlier this summer, I said that I intended to write three essays about Curzio Malaparte and Kaputt, his autofictional account of the Eastern Front from 19...
Imitating Evelyn Waugh
pictures of big british houses felt annoying, so here’s a cat waking up
A couple years ago, when I was at a socialist labor conference in Chicago, Evelyn Waugh came up in conversation with a couple of nationally prominent trade unionists,...
Echopraxia
Copy of Le Duel a L’Épée (The Duel with Swords), from Les Caprices.
Today we have a short story I wrote in July 2023 in a single sitting and revised very lightly. As is tradition on this blog, this piece is accompanied by an essay discussi...
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