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For the Time Being: An Assemblage

Some Capsule Reviews

Civic Involvement for Curmudgeons and Misanthropes

Good Ancestry

Nothing Makes Me Feel Like A Wuss Like Being Around Homeless People

Don't Worry Folks, I Came Up With a Plan to Save the Humanities

Marilynne Robinson's Americanism

Call DEI By Other Names

The Living

Vhat iss to be done

How To Tell If A New Book Is Any Good Or Not

Some Ground Rules For Your Vocational Crisis

Either Way, Let's Not Limit Our Political Imagination

A Superannuated Newspaper Went After My University's DEI People. What Went Wrong?

Interview with Adam Roberts

Annie Dillard's Selflessly Self-Focused Autobiographies

The People Whose Job It Is To Care About Art and Culture Are Always the First to Abandon It

A Bit of Anecdotal Evidence About One Cause of the Reading Crisis

How I'm Trying to Address the Reading Crisis In My Syllabus

"A Sense of History"

What If This Is As Good As It Gets: A Taxonomy Of Writerly Luck

capsule reviews of the week

Language Is Smarter Than We Are

Interview With Austin Grossman

Undecided Voters and Bored Students

Robinson and Dillard Vont en Bateau

three capsule reviews

No, It Is Not Ableist To Ask Writers Who Are Doing A Writing Event to Write Things

Some Capsule Reviews

On imperfection

Teaching a Stone to Talk (1982)

New book column

Two Announcements

The Mystery of the Charity of Kermit T. Frog

New Essay in Hedgehog Review

What Is Writing Supposed to Feel Like?

Cultural Diary, July 2024

On the Nature and Origins of Juicelessness

You Dummies, You Absolute Dummies, THESE Are the Best Books Of the Past 25 Years

Living By Fiction (1982)

Housekeeping (1980)

Holy the Firm

Cultural Diary, June 2024

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Writing: How Do You Even Begin

2024 Summer/Fall Books, A Biased Preview, Pt. 3

2024 Summer/Fall Books: A Biased Preview, Part 2

2024 Summer/Fall Books: A Biased Preview, Part I

new essay b-sides

New essay in The Point

Tickets For a Prayer Wheel (1974)

Cultural Diary, May 2024

Whitman

Dillard Enters the Wilderness

Making Up a Book to Get Mad At

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)