Over at The Valve, Adam Roberts has posted a new translation of Stéphane Mallarmé’s wonderful poem “Tout l’ame résumée.” (A little background: Stéphane Mallomar was the first to coat the graham cracker of… Continue reading
Elliott Smith’s rarities album, New Moon, has just come out, and I’ve been playing it for about a week, thinking about all his records and how to write about them. His death knocked… Continue reading
…we play your requests, as The Constructivist knows. Ben Wolfson‘s asked for copies of my current reading for my upcoming qualifying exams in literature. The exams are based on three lists and accompanying… Continue reading
You can’t see it, but in my backpack there is a copy of Lonely Planet: Thailand, which I have sort of read cover to cover during my bus rides around Thailand. This is… Continue reading
(x-posted to The Valve) Law professor and conservative blogger Ann Althouse, in a post (and follow-up post) in which she advocates discontinuing the study of fiction in schools, has drawn my attention to… Continue reading
When I was eleven years old, I went to farm camp. I have to call it “farm camp” because I don’t really know what it was called; my parents got a brochure printed… Continue reading
Dear readers, Expat poet and philosopher Nicolas Bourbaki has just showed up in an Argentinian journal called Zone, with the wonderful, very awkwardly titled poem “The Humpty Dumpty Hikikomori.” I’ve been waiting for… Continue reading
Girl #1: You know what would be awesome? Girl #2: What? Girl #1: If rabbits laid chocolate Easter eggs. Girl #2: Yeah, but then their entire species would, like, fail. Girl #1: Yes,… Continue reading
For a little while now, Sinthome at Larval Subjects has been posting excerpts from Spinoza, sometimes with annotations. I’ve been merely a lurker for these, but I’ve appreciated them, in part because they’ve… Continue reading
