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Mar 27, 2026
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So it all began when I reread George Orwell’s 1940 essay “Inside the Whale” for the first time in years and it sent me into a not entirely mild state of crisis....
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Mar 13, 2026
You don’t get much free time in this short life. Ten percent of your total span on earth, perhaps, depending on your job, family status, income, and other obligations....
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Mar 6, 2026
American Psycho has the distinction of being the last novel to cause a true moral panic. Bret Easton Ellis’s 1991 glimpse into the mind of Patrick Bateman, a wealthy...
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Feb 10, 2026
Beware the biographer: the scuttler in the archives, the interviewer of relatives, the Monday morning quarterback, the renderer of judgements, the mad constructor of a monstrous...
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Jan 13, 2026
Here’s a proposition for you: the American vernacular that emerged between roughly 1920 and 1970 was the second great peak of the English language, right up there with the era...
Mar 27, 2026I. So it all began when I reread George Orwell’s 1940 essay “Inside the Whale” for the first time in years and it sent me into a not entirely mild state of crisis....
Mar 6, 2026American Psycho has the distinction of being the last novel to cause a true moral panic. Bret Easton Ellis’s 1991 glimpse into the mind of Patrick Bateman, a wealthy...
Feb 10, 2026Beware the biographer: the scuttler in the archives, the interviewer of relatives, the Monday morning quarterback, the renderer of judgements, the mad constructor of a monstrous...
Jan 13, 2026Here’s a proposition for you: the American vernacular that emerged between roughly 1920 and 1970 was the second great peak of the English language, right up there with the era...