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Author: PGR

  • We’ll always have Paris

    Umberto Eco on “The Cult of the Imperfect” at the venerable Paris Review: When all the archetypes shamelessly burst in, we plumb Homeric depths. Two clichés are laughable. A hundred clichés are affecting—because we become obscurely aware that the clichés are talking to one another and holding a get-together. As the height of suffering meets…

  • Hot take

  • Temporal delamination

    This piece by Katherine Miller on (a)temporality in the age of the algorithm has been doing the rounds, and with some justification; it’s a strong piece of writing, and it’s grasping toward something important. I’d be lying if I didn’t find its implicit attempt to situate Trump as a sort of synecdoche for the state…

  • 3NOV2029

  • Kitty clink

    It’s that time of year again.