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🎁 2024 in Literature puzzle The New Yorker: newyorker.com/puzzles-and-ga…

Wrote, w 100+ writers I greatly admire, about a horrible year (whose horrors were mildly offset by the reliability of my mother’s insult comedy) …. C/o Sasha Frere-Jones’s hospitality and good taste: n.sashafrerejones.com/archive/writin…

Amazing, rangy, beautifully written conjunctural analysis by the great Amna A. Akbar featuring Malm, Mangione, the Eldon Ave. Revolutionary Union Movement, and much more. nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

"as if all the gothic, surreal, comic and fantastic embellishments were ways of metabolizing a violence too blunt and literal to process any other way" Max Nelson is just brilliant on Lynch: newleftreview.es/sidecar/posts/…

For The New York Review of Books I wrote about Leos Carax—and the temptation to write a history of anything as a history of bad dads: nybooks.com/online/2025/01…

I wrote today's The New Yorker crossword: newyorker.com/puzzles-and-ga…

"Has our laughter been stolen? This question is especially—I would say fiercely—apposite when one falls within the blast radius of the liberal amorality of the contemporary art world and the ideological laughing gas that it perpetually huffs"

“Let’s add some more slogans or lessons. Wrest the collective from the individual. Wrest the political from moralism.”—Nico Baumbach's memoriam on Fredric Jameson’s pedagogy. parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the-l…

"His ostentatiously intelligent films, hypermediated by film history, are all in frantic search of a worldview to adopt...” Anna Shechtman unpacks Leos Carax’s career for The New York Review of Books. Discover this week’s essential film finds in the latest Rushes. mubi.com/en/notebook/po…

First Amendment rights suspended under the false pretense of “fighting antisemitism” is abhorrent to me as an American and as a Jew.

Justice for Mahmoud Khalil—Urgent Support Needed chuffed.org/project/justic…

Where Your Donations Will Go: Legal Defense and Advocacy Bail & Bond Assistance Family Support Long-Term Justice Efforts

I am more excited for this than I can say! "What is Critical Now? Media Studies Between Crisis and Critique" is a symposium and workshop at U-M UM Digital Studies Institute that explores the many disciplinary transformations in media studies since "Critical Terms": events.umich.edu/event/133706

I wrote today's The New Yorker crossword: newyorker.com/puzzles-and-ga…

I wrote yesterday's The New Yorker crossword: newyorker.com/puzzles-and-ga…