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A Course That Can Be Recursed

Henry VI Part II: Marilynne Robinson's First Big Reclamation Project

An Open Letter to the People Who Run My University

Dillard, Robinson, and Thoreau

Columbia, Gem of the Ocean

Interchangeable Sea and Sky

Annie Dillard's Earliest Poetry

UFOs, Flying Saints, Wild Facts, Knowing Things

Eclipse Fever

Memories of Another Media Landscape *Entirely*

Interview with Alan Jacobs, Mostly About Auden (Single-Page Version)

Interview with Alan Jacobs, Pt. IV

Interview With Alan Jacobs, Pt. III

Interview with Alan Jacobs, Pt. II: Deep Below Our Violences

Interview With Alan Jacobs, Mostly About Auden, Pt. 1

Why There's Always Poetry On My First-Year Writing Syllabus

No Offense, But Marc-Antoine Charpentier's "Regles de Composition" is Wrong About the Keys, and Here's Why

Dillard and Nicolaides

"Chunking" Instead of Reading, and Other Horrible Concepts

Should We Worry If Gen Z Doesn't Read Books?

New review of Robinson's Reading Genesis

The Juvenilia, Pt. 5

We Finally Have a Great Dune Adaptation. It's Time For Dhalgren: The Movie.

The Juvenilia, Pt. 4

Supplement to the Robinson-Dillard Series: Some Recent Marilynne Appearances

Interview with John Ganz

The Juvenilia, Pt. 3

Two Capsule Reviews

If We Don't Punish Democrats, How Will They Ever Change?

Why I'm Voting the Way in the Thing

Dead Writers I Love, and Who They Would Be In the Social Media Era

The Juvenilia, Pt. 2

How to Be Disliked

The Pinkness

RIP Jonathan McGregor

The Juvenilia, Pt. 1: In Which I Find Myself Mentally Arguing With a College Student

Off the Top of My Head, The Twenty-Five Greatest English-Language Works of Fiction of the Last Fifty Years

The Poetics of Kamala

Ralph Waldo Emerson Considered As Four Types of Guys

Dillard I

Interview With Francis Spufford

Capsule Reviews, Feb. 3, 2024

Churn, churn, churn

Robinson III

Excerpt From a Work in Progress, Part One

Robinson II

What Is Criticism For

AMERICAN FICTION Does Not Disappoint

Two Capsule Reviews

Why Annie?

Some Truths Are Cringe

Why Marilynne?

The Myth of the Myth of the Solitary Genius

Marilynne & Annie: An Announcement

They Keep Making New Semesters

Most Critique Is Useless At Best

A Record Collector's Arbitrage Tipsheet

Two Capsule Reviews

*My* Great 2024 Book Preview (the rest of the year)