
Gus Mitchell
@gustophagus
writer @theatre & @other
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As the climate crisis unfolds, an environmental philosophy rooted in '70s counterculture could guide us to a different future. Gus Mitchell examines bioregionalism in "Knowing Your Place," now unpaywalled on our website: maisonneuve.org/article/2023/1…





I'm so glad that Cleveland Review of Books exists (and also they gave me the chance to write about Cesare Pavese's mad versions of Greek myth and Platonic dialogue) - lately & sumptuously reissued by Sublunary Editions clereviewofbooks.com/writing/cesare…

was so glad to get a chance to edit this masterful piece from Gus Mitchell on bioregionalism and the future it can help us grow!

i wrote a piece about how we might reimagine where we live - for Long Now Foundation, and thanks for edits by Ahmed Kabil & jay longnow.org/ideas/bioregio…


3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2… Published today on 3 Quarks Daily – part 2 of my interview with the great RPH


thesmartset.com/more-human-tha… wrote for The Smart Set about Jodorowsky, holy mountains and shaggy dog spiritualities

I wrote about Patrick Joyce’s new book on the vanishing and reclaiming of Europe’s peasants, for Commonweal Magazine commonwealmagazine.org/historys-survi…

As the promise of endless material abundance breaks, the resilience of the peasant may no longer seem as irrelevant as it once did. Gus Mitchell on the 'vanishing' European peasantry: commonwealmagazine.org/historys-survi…

“What is a peasant? A humble person, one of low rank; the lowest class. Uneducated and unchanging. Crude, coarse, boorish, ignorant. In need of progress. Those notions have stuck to it, but it’s worth returning to the word’s original meaning.” Gus Mitchell plough.com/en/topics/just…

wrote about peasants (again) and one of the greatest and most neglected of European novels, for Plough Quarterly plough.com/en/topics/just…


Goethe is, perhaps more than anybody who ever lived, the outstanding example of what it is possible to do and be with a single human life. Gus Mitchell reviews a new biography of the German polymath: commonwealmagazine.org/goethe-mitchel…

wrote about the Baudelaire x Verso Books (tr. Nathan Brown Nathan Brown ) for Jacobin jacobin.com/2025/04/baudel…

"Fairy tales are the unifying thread of Campo’s work, vessels of her two deepest concerns: perfection and destiny." Gus Mitchell on Cristina Campo NYRB Classics clereviewofbooks.com/cristina-campo…

for Cleveland Review of Books I wrote about fairy tales and their greatest disiciple, the mystic Italian essayist Cristina Campo, whom readers & reviewers in English can at long last enjoy but have so far struggled to ... clereviewofbooks.com/cristina-campo……