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If you’re one of the many people who are new here, hello to you. I stopped posting regularly or even intermittently on Substack a while ago for reasons largely articulated here. Maybe some day I’ll come back. Probably not. But life is a rich tapestry, so who can say? In the interim, I mostly use this newsletter as a way of linking people to my pieces for various literary magazines and The Washington Post. I initially said I’d send links out regularly, but I haven’t done that, and to be honest, I probably won’t. So it goes.
Recent writing:
On Ingeborg Bachmann for The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/ingeborg-bachmann-ghosts/
On a book by an unabashed AI booster: https://wapo.st/3JqBaJs
On Steven Pinker: https://wapo.st/3WMrTyB
On the appallingly vapid and vacant new book by Biden’s former press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, and the future of the Democrats: https://wapo.st/48PrbYp
And in dialogue with another Point editor, Ben Jeffery, about whether we’ll miss the academic humanities:
NB: I think the Post links are gift links. If they don’t work, let me know.
I’ve been reading as much Barbara Pym as I can lately; my favorite so far is An Academic Question.
More soon—several longer essays in the works and so on,
B
Love Barbara Pym!
Fantastic work-- love the reviews of the Jean-Pierre book and the Husain book. Reassuring to know that someone is applying some lucid thought to the drivel these author are dishing out. I wish their editors had done the same.