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Hello! I am behind on everything in my life because I recently got a puppy. His name is Kafka, and he is a perfect creature, but I am now spending…

Apr 16

in which I embarrass myself by kvetching about my critics

Mar 20

Hello, all! It’s been a while since I’ve used Substack the way I initially intended to, namely as a means of alerting people when my work’s been…

Feb 1

I imagine that there are people who would be disappointed to see me tackle such a topic—people who assume that, because I prefer to write about…

Jan 24

Almost two years into quasi-quarantine, and on the eve of what might flare into a second lockdown, I thought I might revive a short essay I wrote and…

Jan 13

Dec 20, 2021

all the classic topics

Dec 1, 2021

truly it is terrible

Oct 31, 2021

I know, I know, this is not about MacIntyre…but because I reviewed Amia Srinivasan’s Right to Sex alongside two other books (here), I didn’t have space…

Oct 18, 2021

Are the authors things I’ve written about recently. I’ve lost track of why, exactly, I’m supposed to hate Franzen, but, alas, I do not. I wrote about…

Oct 18, 2021

hi, all! I am sorry that I have been so bad at maintaining this Substack lately. I don’t really have many good excuses, except for these: I fell in love…

Sep 21, 2021

Hello, all. Sorry for the incredible lateness of this post! I have a two-pronged excuse that is half bad and half good. The bad part of the excuse is…

Aug 23, 2021

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