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The The Chronicle of Higher Education republished my essay on the challenge posed to university AI committees! I've gotten so much good feedback about this piece, and I'm very happy these conversations are happening. chronicle.com/article/what-i…

“In fact, I’m not sure anyone cares that much about United any more. The reason is quite simple: we’re shit.” thepointmag.com/examined-life/…

Autofiction was tempting because it offered budding writers a framework within which writing had clear moral stakes, even if those stakes were defined largely in the negative, as a practice of avoiding harm. And this harm had a name: “wrongful trespass.” thepointmag.com/criticism/righ…

Now that the tide has turned back toward realism, now that we can consider autofiction in retrospect, “Diego Garcia” comes into focus as a high-water mark for the genre—and possibly a path forward. thepointmag.com/criticism/righ…

“These novels do contain beauty and pleasure, but to me they feel overcast with loneliness, as well as a self-recriminating anger, which suggests that the righteous abandonment of allofiction for autofiction doesn’t solve one’s writerly problems.” thepointmag.com/criticism/righ…

Manchester United lost the Europa League final last week—making this their second consecutive worst-ever season. “So,” asks Jonny Thakkar, “why can’t I withdraw from United?” thepointmag.com/examined-life/…

Rightful Trespass | The Point Magazine thepointmag.com/criticism/righ…

Many novelists have taken to heart the ethical quandaries W.G. Sebald posed, though few have done so with the idiosyncratic rigor of Luke Williams and Natasha Soobramanien. thepointmag.com/criticism/righ…

How can anyone write about profound losses, whether historical or personal, that are not their own? And if no single voice can do justice to these traumas, is it possible that more than one could? thepointmag.com/criticism/righ…

“These days my relationship to football is hard to separate from my other forms of internet addiction.” thepointmag.com/examined-life/…

Now that we can consider autofiction in retrospect, “Diego Garcia” comes into focus as a high-water mark for the genre—one that pushed the constraints of autofiction back toward the multiplicity of voices associated with polyphonic realism and modernism. thepointmag.com/criticism/righ…

To the degree that many autofictional authors attempted to solve W.G. Sebald’s problem of “wrongful trespass,” it now seems they’ve moved on without having solved it. Perhaps it can’t be solved—but if any novel has come close, it’s “Diego Garcia.” thepointmag.com/criticism/righ…

“When we stop doing this—when our needs for communication are met by something outside of us, a detached mouthpiece to summon, describe and regale—the intimate connection between thought and language disappears.” thepointmag.com/examined-life/…

With their weird, unwieldy, sui generis response to W.G. Sebald, Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams have pushed the constraints and charms of autofiction back toward the multiplicity of voices associated with polyphonic realism and high modernism. thepointmag.com/criticism/righ…

“We’re like aristocrats exiled after a revolution, melancholy at the loss of a birthright we never deserved, happiest roaming the mansions of our minds.” Jonny Thakkar on being a Manchester United fan in the aftermath of their worst-ever season: thepointmag.com/examined-life/…

Books by writers like Vonnegut and Kerouac may no longer be getting passed down to kids in the way they once were, but it’s worth considering the extraordinary influence they exerted over so many readers during the second half of the twentieth century. thepointmag.com/examined-life/…

To the ethical quandaries given to us by W.G. Sebald, “Diego Garcia” proposes some unusual aesthetic solutions. thepointmag.com/criticism/righ…

If the aim of humanities disciplines is the formation of human persons, then the real threat AI poses is not one of job replacement or grading frustration or having to reimagine assignments but something entirely different. thepointmag.com/examined-life/…

“I’d rather we remain United and lose than become a different club and win.” thepointmag.com/examined-life/…

“Reading the literary remnants of a bygone era, handed to us by our wistfully subdued parents and teachers, meant feeding off political hopes that had already expired, taking whatever sustenance we could from an unfulfilled promise.” thepointmag.com/examined-life/…