Category: Criticism
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The Good Soldier
Some thoughts on the novel by Ford Madox Ford.
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whatever circuits of vanity underlie the original impulse
I’d been planning to stop doing criticism, but it was essentially a triage decision: drop the writing that seems to be achieving the least, you know.
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on discernment
The really blunt way to put this would be to say that a bit of cultural elitism might not be a bad thing right now.
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generational hangover
There are also moments when a widely-shared world ends not with a neat denouement, but rather with a slurry of lazy tropes and cliches.