a fête worse than death | becca rothfeld | Substack

A lot of things are happening! One thing that’s happening is that The Point is throwing a party to celebrate the release of issue 29. It’ll be in New York on the 21st, from 7:30 to who-knows when, and I will be there. I hope you can make it! You can register here…

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I have three new pieces out in recent weeks and not much else to report, except that I’m on a deadline so I shouldn’t be on here, and also that one of…

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Hi, all. I wrote a piece about one of my favorite novelists, Italo Svevo, for the New Left Review that’s up now…

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Hi, all! I have a new piece out, two pieces of news, and a reflection. The piece, which came out in New York Magazine, advances a different reading of…

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Hi, all. Two pieces of tangentially related news. First, I wrote about a great and long overdue new translation of Kafka’s diaries for this week’s New…

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Last week, a Harvard affiliate asked me to sign a petition that concerns the apparently dire condition of “free speech” on campus. Not only I did I…

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Hi, all! I’ve recently acquired many new subscribers, possibly because of my post about Agnes and her “cancellation.” I fear that these new subscribers…

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