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Dec 12, 2025
Dear Republic,
If you are into LitStack, then you definitely know Naomi Kanakia. Naomi writes in a bewildering array of forms and styles — sci-fi, YA, realist...
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Nov 26, 2025
If you’re a regular reader of this Substack, you may have noticed that I am less than enthusiastic about the state of contemporary publishing. My usual critique runs something...
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Nov 4, 2025
I have the pronounced sense that the Woke Era is finished and gone for good. What’s been surprising in the blizzard of Trump actions is how little of a fight liberals have put...
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Aug 13, 2025
Catherine Lacey is a writer of extraordinary gifts, with hard-earned adult wisdom and the kind of effortless sentence-to-sentence felicity that makes any writer reading her strongly...
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Jun 12, 2025
When I worked in documentaries, what my job seemed to be, as much as anything else, was listening to war stories from cameramen.
The most gung-ho of those cameramen was, at the same...
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May 12, 2025
There’s a way that you’re kind of, sort of, supposed to complain about prizes — that they’re a bit silly of course, but they don’t really do any harm,...
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Mar 31, 2025
Fairly regularly, I read political science-type books looking for something to excerpt and, again and again, I have the same reaction: that whatever it is I’m reading is an...
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Mar 28, 2025
I went cheerfully through college listening to music on old file-sharing programmes while everybody around me had switched to iTunes. While the rest of the student body scrolled the...
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Mar 5, 2025
The mother of all costume dramas.
Conclave starts with a simple, can’t-miss premise. We will stick ourselves in the Vatican for two hours. What we have to spend on the...
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Feb 17, 2025
When Sam Kahn asked if I wanted to have a written debate about AI and literature (after my recent piece ‘Literary Culture Can’t Just Dismiss AI’) I immediately...
Dec 12, 2025Dear Republic, If you are into LitStack, then you definitely know Naomi Kanakia. Naomi writes in a bewildering array of forms and styles — sci-fi, YA, realist...
Nov 4, 2025I have the pronounced sense that the Woke Era is finished and gone for good. What’s been surprising in the blizzard of Trump actions is how little of a fight liberals have put...
Aug 13, 2025Catherine Lacey is a writer of extraordinary gifts, with hard-earned adult wisdom and the kind of effortless sentence-to-sentence felicity that makes any writer reading her strongly...
Jun 12, 2025When I worked in documentaries, what my job seemed to be, as much as anything else, was listening to war stories from cameramen. The most gung-ho of those cameramen was, at the same...
Mar 31, 2025Fairly regularly, I read political science-type books looking for something to excerpt and, again and again, I have the same reaction: that whatever it is I’m reading is an...
Mar 28, 2025I went cheerfully through college listening to music on old file-sharing programmes while everybody around me had switched to iTunes. While the rest of the student body scrolled the...
Mar 5, 2025The mother of all costume dramas. Conclave starts with a simple, can’t-miss premise. We will stick ourselves in the Vatican for two hours. What we have to spend on the...
Feb 17, 2025When Sam Kahn asked if I wanted to have a written debate about AI and literature (after my recent piece ‘Literary Culture Can’t Just Dismiss AI’) I immediately...