A Revival of Romantic Letters
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"I wander through these woods making songs of you": On the Love and Work of Jack Gilbert
Egon Schiele, Liebesakt, Studie (1915). Oil on canvas.
For my classes with study-abroad students in Seville, Spain, I’ve got a spiel for each nook and cranny of the city we visit. At the Glorieta de Bécquer—a circular garden in María Luisa...
John Ford’s American Justice
I thought I understood how art affects us—being an artist myself—until I discovered John Ford.
I thought I understood how art affects us—being an artist myself—until I discovered John Ford. He was the film director who invented the persona...
Daydream Nationalism
The perfect punk song should, in theory, be impossible to find let alone to write. If perfection were punk’s endgame there would be no point in it. Pop music is perfection embodied. The recurring search for the one hook that will bring the...
Diotima's Wild Children
Paul Sérusier, The Eleusinian Mysteries (1888). Oil on canvas.
‘Holy Socrates, why always with deference
Do you treat this young man? Don’t you know greater things?
Why so lovingly, raptly,
As on gods, do you gaze on him?...
High and Halcyon Region of Magic
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On the train from New York to New Mexico, Mabel Dodge felt stuffy, claustrophobic, she writes in her memoirs. Exiting the train with her luggage in a small town in eastern N.M., eager to breathe the dry, December air, she...
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COM-POSIT is a newsletter of aphoristic essays, critical–speculative prose, reviews, and occasional fictions.
Folklorist and storyteller. Essays on the folkloric and occult (sometimes serious, often not). New posts every week. Ko-Fi: @lizziebickerstaff
Greg Gerke has published In the Suavity of the Rock (Splice), a novel, See What I See (Zerogram Press), a book of essays, and Especially the Bad Things, a book of stories (Splice). He edits the journal Socrates on the Beach.
Pursuing a double major in literature & philosophy / poet / essayist / musician Occasionally post published/forthcoming content.
Writer | Architect | strong views | soft eyes | Editor at Romanticon
Andrew Kuiper lives and writes in Michigan. Interests include Neoplatonism, Kabbalah, German Idealism and Romanticism, Russian Sophiology and Marxism. He has written for The Lamp, Church Life Journal, and Romanticon.
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever—or else swoon to death.
Author of the novel MAJOR ARCANA and the Substack GRAND HOTEL ABYSS, which includes Weekly Readings, a free literature and culture newsletter, and The Invisible College, a literary podcast for paid subscribers.
Executive Editor at The Republic of Letters. I have written essays and reportage for Harper's, Vice (print), Commonweal, American Affairs, Al-Jazeera America, among other small journals. https://linktr.ee/aaronlakesmith
seamonster
Rhetoric and political theory in the public interest. Tuned to the key of collapse. Focused on liberatory possibility.
Critic and social theorist in New York
University Professor of Media and New Humanities, New School, NYC . . . . . . . Extimacy Coordinator . . . . . . "Things weren't better before. But they are definitely getting worse."
Literary critic and litterateur. Self-actualizing subject of very late capitalism. Lives in Portugal.
Writer, academic and General Editor of Hyperidean Press.
Student journalist @columbiasundial; writer and reporter—words UnHerd, Spectator, RealClear Politics, Sublation; horseshoe enthusiast; facilitator of hot takes, among other things.
Stephen G. Adubato is a writer and professor of philosophy based in New York. He is also the curator of the Cracks in Postmodernity blog, podcast, and magazine. Follow him on Twitter @stephengadubato and Instagram @cracksinpomo
My writing dreams are humble. Richest man in the world. Playboy. Warlord. Literary Mount Rushmore. Dead by 40, facedown in a ditch. Works in: The New Critic, Republic of Letters, Romanticon, Secret Ballot. Peace & Love
A. F. Moritz's forthcoming books, both scheduled for spring 2026, are The Wren poetry, and Eternities (Fayetteville NY: The Bitter Oleander Press), a translation of Juan Ramon Jimenez's great 1918 book of poems, Eternidades.
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