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The Endurance of Things

‘He waxes desperate with imagination’

A Substacker Reads Luiz Costa Lima in Australia and Bursts into Tears (with apologies to László F. Földényi)

On Edgar Allan Poe and the economics of literary theft

Notes On Askēsis (Part 2 of 2)

Notes On Askēsis (Part 1 of 2)

Albert Camus and democracy

Sidebar: Toward a form of art criticism for the current moment

Vale Frank Moorhouse, 1938-2022

Notes on Lucienne Rickard’s “Extinction Studies”

A pre-history of Australia’s two-party system

Recommendations for all future manifestoes

So you want to write a manifesto? (Part 1 of 2)

Q&A with Roger Lowenstein on the financing of the U.S. Civil War

An alternative view of Jack Kerouac at 100

Sidebar: Notes on Reading, No. 1

On reading Camus’ “The Stranger” in its Algerian context

On reading Camus’ “The Stranger” in its Algerian context

A brief history of (not) touching art

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