🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

I wrote about Mathias Énard’s “The Deserters” (trans. Charlotte Mandell) for the New York Times Book Review. (Link below)

Schattenfroh & Sugar Kremlin are two of the projects targeted by the politically weaponized Trumpist NEA canceling Deep Vellum’s grant for this year. They can’t cancel literature, they can’t cancel dialogue. Donate & let’s fight this bullshit together! secure.givelively.org/donate/deep-ve…

It’s been a strange few days for us, and for countless other nonprofit publishers, magazines, and arts organizations. We may not know what happens next, but we do know that we will need your help.

The capacity for self-reflective critical thinking is what stands between humanity and the descent into a new form of totalitarianism AI is technological ideology. It strips you of the right to think for yourself while turning you back against yourself in isolation. It's inhuman

A poem for Delmore Schwartz, from one schnook to another, in the May 29 issue of The New York Review of Books, now up.

One of the best bird poems ever to take wing, if you ask this editor. The Summer 2025 issue of Nimrod Journal has arrived!

So moved by Eva Helene Pade’s beautiful show at the ARKEN museum in Denmark - a series of paintings inspired by The Rite of Spring 🌻

Very excited to have contributed an essay on James Agee and Weldon Kees to this excellent issue of Nimrod Journal — and to be edited by Boris Dralyuk again! A real privilege.

Readers of Nimrod Journal’s s-stack will receive Morten’s essay in their inboxes on Friday, May 30. Sign up now, and subscribe to the journal!

A few thoughts about Mann and all the other German writers who couldn’t see what was coming. Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics libertiesjournal.com/online-article…

“The names of the vice-presidents of the United States [constitute] a curiously dim gallery of minor politicians.” — Gore Vidal

Let's bring it back baby

A much-needed manifesto on close reading:

Something MacIntyre's passing made me think of is the way the academy used to be, seemingly, more hospitable to eccentrics, cranks, offbeat but brilliant types; maybe this was due in part to there being jobs, period, back in the day, but I think it goes beyond that