wow! feeblelittlehorse.bandcamp.com/album/bitknot

She remembered enjoying nouveaux romans, which she read against the grain: ‘I could visualise the characters and completely identified with them. I felt like they were describing my life.’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

i support generalizing this practice. put doja cat in moby dick

lowkey think the guardian list is the best you can hope for from a silly genre but here’s 100 novels i like that aren’t on it

excellent and cathartic essay on hamrah and the pseudocritical tendency he represents www.theideasletter.org/essay/he-los...

highly recommend this essay review in the new alh about the fascist-libertarian convergence on particular notions of ‘freedom’

2026 reading thread

the end of this piece is really something

great book

we’ll always have andreas malm, adam hanieh, and anahid nersessian

still thinking abt transcription. great book, maybe his best

willa cather

princess casamassima mentioned in lrb wow

seeing oklou half fixed me. grouper in september will fix the rest of me

prynne

grouper tickets acquired

cleo from 5 to 7 showing at 6. more like cleo from 6 to 8

rip jh prynne

Alexander Kluge passed away last month at the age of 94. Bruce Robbins writes on his lifelong dialogue with his fellow artists, writers, and thinkers, from Jürgen Habermas to Oskar Negt to Ben Lerner. thebaffler.com/latest/march...

the most beautiful music there is wildup.bandcamp.com/album/julius...

Ghassan Kanafani-Women

‘The tide of destruction flowed inwards from the perimeter fences, pushing Palestinians into enclaves referred to by the IDF as “safe areas” and “humanitarian zones”, though they were never safe or humane.’ Eyal Weizman on the destruction of Gaza, brick by brick: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

i worked on this oxford edition of james’s weirdest novel, about radical anarchism in 19c london

this is 5 years old as a piece of writing so i am permitting myself 1 (one) repost

yay

Boy howdy. nobaddaysinla.substack.com/p/how-the-la...

As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵 academic.oup.com/alh/article/...

2025

amazing book btw

counterpoint: *all* LLMs are revanchist by definition

have you heard about this jameskmusic.bandcamp.com/track/play

‘Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather than a problem of desire (or the material conditions that shape desire).’

completely laid out for the weekend by the covid booster sandy.bandcamp.com/track/immunity

wrote an absurdly long review of this to put off other work i need to do: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

wrote an absurdly long review of this to put off other work i need to do: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

just read an astoundingly bad substack post that doubles as a cautionary tale against reading too much sontag & barthes and reading too little anything else

phil neel, hinterland

add me on goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/54...

i got a phd and all i got was this phd

on the uses of 'unconditional surrender' (from enzo traverso, fire and blood)

mallarmé on rimbaud: ‘a perverse and superb puberty’ (kristin ross, the emergence of social space)

alienated majesty books in atx posted this display honoring the late dag solstad 💙

the beginning of the coming universal wish not to live

library sale, with an extra discount on irish books 👍🏻

hahahahahahahahahaha oh man

2025 reading thread

at long last an answer to the riddle, ‘is michael clune dumb or evil’