You can give a pretty good culture industry reading of this: a society of umreflective deontologists is one which is especially unwilling to contest the state monopoly on violence

today my dad's mother-in-law gave him $25 for his birthday. he's 72

I'm here, I steer (literally just lmk I will be your driver for a road trip anywhere in the continental us/canada) and I need a beer (kinda sad)

idk if I'll ever be a great poet but on the basis of my unwritten work I'm already a Stevens-Ashbery level GOAT contender for best ever poem titles

red, the blood of angry men, la, a note to follow sol

Sleeper agent

Top five are pretty solid; bottom five likely to be swapped out for other works as I read more In Search of Lost Time Don Quixote Moby-Dick Ulysses Miss Lonelyhearts To the Lighthouse Half a Lifelong Romance The Savage Detectives Operation Shylock Lord Jim

Mario Vargas Llosa should really bring it back home and write the definitive Shining Path-Fujimori novel but we all know he's too much of a coward to do so because it's kind of his fault

Ben Gross @coffin_snoozer Nathan rd Whenever Derrida does that "two distinct essays running in parallel for many pages" thing I call his bluff and simply read both bits of each essay on each page before moving on to the next one. What I lose in comprehension I more than get back in smugness.

one of the pleasures of reading proust is that you discover how many load-bearing phrases in our language actually come from the recherche

why is Mark Carney played by Duck Phillips

Man I love the Mozart Lacrimosa as much as anyone, but I'm not sure a text imploring us to pray that Shelley Duvall, David Lynch, and James Earl Jones escape eternal damnation is the right tone for the in memoriam

TRUE NORTH

can I say something without people getting mad

Anyone have recs for stuff published by NYRB? I have a gift card to burn through.

The last great conservative poet to write in English died a Remainer and a Corbynista