Phil Christman's public notebook--mostly about literature and the other arts, but also, frequently, about theology, politics, teaching writing, and university-related matters from a pro-labor perspective.
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“Is” “posting” “over”?
Used to be you could generate several hundred dollars in yearly income and an agreeable few hours of emotional turbulence by writing a long stemwinder of a post reacting to, admonishing, editing, cursing The Discourse. It feels like that er...
Molecular Moral Forces 19: America vs. Privacy
As he's writing The American and The Europeans, Henry is also doing an amount of journalism that is exhausting to contemplate.
As he's writing The American and The Europeans, Henry is also doing an amount of journalism that is exhausting t...
Rich Bad Texts
on “The Tay Bridge Disaster”
I get to teach a 200-level class at least once a year, sometimes more than once. These are usually general-interest writing courses, just slightly more advanced than the first-year required class, but open to n...
Molecular Moral Forces 18: The Europeans
Critical opinion seems to have settled on the idea of The American as The First Really Solid James Novel, the first of his novels (after Watch and Ward and Roderick) that a non-scholar would want to bother with.
Critical opinion seems to h...
Summer In Review/Some Announcements
Some recent work that I have forgotten to link from this newsletter, and some recent paid posts that free subscribers might have missed:
—a weird little tribute to Robert Ingersoll
—a complaint about the turn of phrase “restoring digni...
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Author of "Why Christians Should Be Leftists" (Eerdmans, 2025), "How to Be Normal," and "Midwest Futures" (Belt, 2022 and 2020). Lecturer in the English Department Writing Program at University of Michigan.
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