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Jun 3, 2026
"He made chutzpah a literary form!” proclaims a blurb on the back cover of a collection of essays and stories by the literary critic and enfant terrible Leslie Fiedler. It is...
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Apr 24, 2026
“Make it new,” proclaimed the poet Ezra Pound early in the twentieth century. It was his advice to fellow-modernists, and it became the de-facto slogan of a movement that...
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Mar 10, 2026
Yesterday, I was at the gym, struggling to squat properly and sweatily listening to Ezra Klein interview an Anthropic executive, when it occurred to me: this stuff is so, so...
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Mar 9, 2026
The French, in all their Continental wisdom, have a word for people who are ugly in theory yet beautiful in practice. Someone who is jolie laide (literally, pretty-ugly) ought by...
Jun 3, 2026"He made chutzpah a literary form!” proclaims a blurb on the back cover of a collection of essays and stories by the literary critic and enfant terrible Leslie Fiedler. It is...
Mar 10, 2026Yesterday, I was at the gym, struggling to squat properly and sweatily listening to Ezra Klein interview an Anthropic executive, when it occurred to me: this stuff is so, so...
Mar 9, 2026The French, in all their Continental wisdom, have a word for people who are ugly in theory yet beautiful in practice. Someone who is jolie laide (literally, pretty-ugly) ought by...