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I am very happy to announce that First Things has founded an annual poetry prize thanks to the generous support of the Tim & Judy Rudderow Foundation. Submit by June 30th. Winners will be announced in August: firstthings.com/the-inaugural-…

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The last crimes of Caravaggio: Within weeks of finishing his final painting, a murder scene, the artist was himself dead. newstatesman.com/culture/art-de… h/t Prufrock

Tasty as usual from Prufrock (and very nice to see a link to my latest column for First Things): open.substack.com/pub/prufrock/p…

I hear disturbing reports about 'the algorithm'--what it favors, what it largely excludes, and so on. But in any case, you should be reading Prufrock regularly (and you may be interested in my monthly column there on fiction; the latest installment was posted today).

Thanks to Prufrock, I read this splendid review by Michael Ledger-Lomas. (Many delicious sentences!)
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Re-upping this. The (hilarious) first item alone is worth a year's subscription:
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For mysterious reasons, I disdain the substack experience & model. But Prufrock has won me over, so I've signed up for a year of it. (The free glimpses of great editorial judgement wore me down at last.) Highly recommended for a balanced diet. prufrock.substack.com

If you’ve seen headlines about the “surge” in attempts to ban books, or if you’ve ever wondered how it’s possible to lie and deceive using real data, read this from Prufrock : prufrock.substack.com/p/the-book-ban…

the publisher Rowman & Littlefield. (Please note: the main title of Paldy's book was used for another book about 15 years ago.) And here's that column, in case you missed it:/2
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Note to readers of my recent Prufrock column on spy fiction, in which I mentioned some nonfiction as well. Keep an eye out for Lester Paldy's No Cloak, No Dagger: A Professor's Secret Life Inside the CIA, due in March from.../1

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In case you missed it this morning, my January column for Prufrock is on spy fiction, new & old (plus a bit of spy-related nonfiction; also a shoutout re Jessica Hooten Wilson's fascinating Flannery O'Connor project):
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In his latest column, John Wilson surveys spy fiction, new and old: prufrock.substack.com/p/whats-new-an…

This morning's Winter Books post is now available to everyone. Check it out: prufrock.substack.com/p/winter-books

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Tuesday reads: Travis Kitchens for COMPACT, John Wilson for Prufrock, Emina Melonic ☕🎥 🎞 for Chronicles Magazine, Tom Rogan for Washington Examiner, @gdess for his Substack, Pierre d'Alancaisez for The Critic, and many others.

Still looking for a Christmas present? John Wilson (John Wilson) recommends his favorite novels of 2023: prufrock.substack.com/p/strange-fict…

As I mentioned earlier (I couldn't resist peeking online), I've read only one of the ten Best Books of the Year (WSJ Books Section), but it was a good one: Ismail Kadare's A Dictator Calls (@CounterpointLLC). I wrote about it, and Kadare, for Prufrock:.../1
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