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This Semester's Manifesto
happy new year
Jan 4
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It's Banal to Say, But Last Year Sucked
a prayer for all of you
Jan 1
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Phil Christman
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December 2025
2026 Book Preview! The Rest of the Year (in brief)
What you most need to know about the rest of the year is that, so far, there is no announcement regarding Marilynne Robinson’s Exodus book.
Dec 30, 2025
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Phil Christman
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2026 Book Preview! March-April
March I’m Personally Most Excited About/The Type of Nerds Who Read Me Will Probably Not Want to Miss:
Dec 29, 2025
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Phil Christman
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2026 Book Preview! January-February
Longtime readers know that I do two of these a year.
Dec 28, 2025
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Phil Christman
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A Year in Various Other Things
A Year in Books I Started and Didn’t Fish
Dec 10, 2025
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Phil Christman
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A Year in Information That I Willingly Passed On to Others
a reminder, a factcheck, so on
Dec 9, 2025
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Phil Christman
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A Year in Non-Newsletter Writing
what I did
Dec 8, 2025
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Phil Christman
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A Year in Images
my year, not the world's
Dec 7, 2025
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Phil Christman
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November 2025
On Hating
In my early twenties I met a really cool girl at a party—a freelance journalist and music reviewer—and she seemed not wholly indifferent to my…
Nov 30, 2025
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Phil Christman
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I Spent Some Time With Jesus and It Low-Key Sucked
The other night, I did a shift at the rotating homeless shelter thing that a bunch of the churches around here take part in.
Nov 25, 2025
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Phil Christman
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Samuel Richardson Prize Finalist: Daniel Falatko, THE WAYBACK MACHINE
Several months ago that woman of letters Naomi Kanakia had the following excellent idea: there should be a contest for self-published literary…
Nov 23, 2025
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