So, our distributor advanced a grand total of 143 units of Dubravka Ugresic’s MUZZLE FOR WITCHES to ALL indie bookstores across the country. (1/x)

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Henry is referring to the neglect of Conrad Aiken, but Reuel Denney, the author of this monograph, is neglected to an even greater degree. Here is his “McSorley’s Bar,” one of the best watering-hole poems I know, which appeared in POETRY magazine in 1937.

The September issue is here! Feat. - Paul Griffiths on learning to hear homilies - Cathleen Kaveny on Trump's Supreme Court - Morten Høi Jensen on Christopher Hitchens - Rabbi Philip Graubart on Biblical wandering & more! commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2024-08…

A pleasure as always to be published alongside Morten Høi Jensen, who has a fine piece on Hitch in this month’s issue of Commonweal Magazine. commonwealmagazine.org/when-hitchens-…

For the September issue of ⁦Commonweal Magazine⁩, I wrote about the good old Christopher Hitchens: commonwealmagazine.org/when-hitchens-…

This is an outstanding work of literary excavation from ⁦Jared Marcel Pollen⁩ - also in the September issue of ⁦Commonweal Magazine⁩ commonwealmagazine.org/out-vortex

Two recent finds for the Penguin collection:

If you're a translator, don't pass this up. Not only is Boris Dralyuk a brilliant translator and poet, he's also a terrific guy.

If there are any "fascists" in America today it those beating and arresting the students protesting the ongoing slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.

Christopher Hitchens was a champion detractor, a terrific hater, and always more fun to read when he was denouncing than when he was praising. An essay by Morten Høi Jensen: commonwealmagazine.org/when-hitchens-…

Featuring: Jared Marcel Pollen on David Jones and “In Parenthesis” and Morten Høi Jensen on a collection of essays by Christopher Hitchens, both in Commonweal Magazine, Hannah Gold in The Nation on “Small Rain”, an upcoming novel by Garth Greenwell… (1/2)

For the September issue of the Literary Review I wrote about Olga Tokarczuk’s dreadful new novel: literaryreview.co.uk/out-of-sorts

I reviewed Olga Tokarczuk’s new novel for the September issue of ⁦Literary Review⁩: literaryreview.co.uk/out-of-sorts

"The need to write and the meaninglessness of all writing is the paradoxical law under which the modern artists seems to operate." - Gabriel Josipovici, "The Lessons of Modernism"

Thrilled to see Paul Larkin nominated for his brilliant translation of Martin A. Hansen's The Liar for NYRB Classics!

drop everything for Haber! southwestreview.com/how-to-read-ka…

If you're interested in how it came to be that half of the National Book Award longlist for fiction was published by Penguin Random House and the implications of that, may I recommend— bookshop.org/p/books/big-fi…

RIP Elias Khoury. siddhartha deb's 2008 The Nation essay is an excellent introduction to his fictional world: thenation.com/article/archiv…

The 100th (official) episode of Know Your Enemy is live! We answered listener questions, reflected on the last 5 years, and thoroughly embarrassed birthday boy Matthew Sitman 🥥🌴🇺🇸 w/ voicemails from friends of the show. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kno…