Sam Kahn

Author Archive

  • Mar 16, 2026
    1.The way I see it, there are two places where I have a “zone of disagreement” with you. One is just in the general assessment of the conglomeration era. You seem to...
  • Mar 10, 2026
    A Laundry List
  • Mar 2, 2026
    1.Did you always want to be a writer? I didn’t seriously consider what I wanted to be until I was maybe 14 and then, yes I wanted to be a writer. It was the only thing I could...
  • Feb 24, 2026
    Don DeLillo once remarked, with regard to twentieth-century American fiction, that it is “as though Hemingway died one day and Pynchon was born the next.” What he meant...
  • Jan 19, 2026
    There’s something a bit odd about my résumé. Right towards the top, in a single line, is Compact, UnHerd, and Quillette — and, since...