My Year in Reading, 2025
Challenging stale histories through fresh narratives, and how new worlds are formed.
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My Year in Reading, 2024
A tour through the Social Novel, Victorian(-ish) literature, and Weimar Autumn.
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My Year in Reading, 2023
From the nested puzzles of a Parisian flat to the utopian vistas of a terraformed Mars.
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The Three Stages of Capitalist Space
Thinking through the contradictions and cognitive terrain of postmodernism with Fredric Jameson.
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The Christ of Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis’ towering literary output reflects a lifelong effort to articulate both spiritual and political radicalisms—embodied in the figure of Christ.
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Spiritual Mergers & Acquisitions
Does Christianity truly constitute an “alternative spirit” to capitalism?
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Los Angeles Intellectuals
Lurking beneath the sunny veneer of culture-capitalism is a lineage of critical work that, as Mike Davis argues, emerged as L.A.’s distinctive intellectual contribution: the genre of noir.
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My Year in Reading, 2016
Classics, novels, intellectual histories, philosophical biographies, nightmares, criticisms, and more.
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