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Oct 7, 2025
In the Preface to The Drunken Silenus (2020), the first volume of Morgan Meis’s “Three Paintings Trilogy”—which continues with The Fate of the...
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Sep 12, 2025
I should have become a fan earlier.
I’d heard that Tolentino was a brilliant young essayist. And that alone should have drawn me in, as I love the essay form. Yet still I...
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Aug 15, 2025
I first used this title, “Can It Be True?,” for my previous post, written in a partly panicky, partly skeptical response to a recent New...
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May 1, 2025
An epigraph (literally, a “writing upon”) is a brief inscription at the beginning of a literary work, meant to suggest the book’s theme or convey its tone....
Oct 7, 2025In the Preface to The Drunken Silenus (2020), the first volume of Morgan Meis’s “Three Paintings Trilogy”—which continues with The Fate of the...
Sep 12, 2025I should have become a fan earlier. I’d heard that Tolentino was a brilliant young essayist. And that alone should have drawn me in, as I love the essay form. Yet still I...
Aug 15, 2025I first used this title, “Can It Be True?,” for my previous post, written in a partly panicky, partly skeptical response to a recent New...
May 1, 2025An epigraph (literally, a “writing upon”) is a brief inscription at the beginning of a literary work, meant to suggest the book’s theme or convey its tone....