Literature

Must We Burn Bukowski?

Is the misanthropic "poet laureate of LA lowlife" one for the dustbin, or can he teach us something about feeling?

Feb 26 •

The Vietnamese-Canadian writer whose family feasted while Vietnam starved

Kim Thúy is the scion of a colonial collaborator family and is an imperialist apologist

Feb 21 •

Your Poetry Sucks: The Heel Manifesto

Or, In Praise of Aesthetic Antagonism

Feb 9 •

Jean Cocteau & France shut up about America challenge. Difficulty: Impossible.

God save America from the condescension of the continental French

Jan 15 •

Rachel Cusk and the Boobies Curse

Brief notes on a phenomenology of "boobs rock"

Jan 10 •

How to Run a Poetry Reading (the Way I Say it Should Be Done)

Start by hurling yourself into a giant industrial fan

Jan 5 •

FROM THE VAULT: 'Ready Player One' and the living death of science fiction

Ernest Cline wasn't bullied hard enough in school

Dec 6, 2024 •

Is New Yorker film critic Richard Brody sundowning?

And also some thoughts on how the copy editing department of The New Yorker is secretly a cult

Nov 21, 2024 •

FROM THE VAULT: The Prognosis of Jordan B. Peterson

Getting inside the squishy innards of a nightmare crank

Nov 19, 2024 •

Honor Levy at the end of the wor(l)d

Can we escape the clutches of twee adult baby memery?

Oct 24, 2024 •

How poets help America wage war

Ilya Kaminsky, Dunya Mikhail, and a brief introduction to the Poetics of Empire

Oct 22, 2024 •

Is a celebrated Chilean-American poet lying about his family history?

Daniel Borzutzky's professed family history should possibly arouse a bit off skepticism

Oct 15, 2024 •

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