An independent archive of literary criticism offering close readings of recent novels, with attention to form, narrative structure and the devices authors rely on. Issues include single-book reviews and a critical overview of the Booker shortlist.
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A literary and intellectual magazine's newsletter featuring essays, criticism and interviews on politics, technology, books and culture. Issues pair new pieces from the magazine with curated archive articles and writer interviews.
Essays by a critical technologist that read digital culture, taste and attention through Black Studies and conceptual art, alongside fiction criticism and interview episodes. Readers get dense, theory-informed commentary on smartphones, gentrification-style urban sameness and literary critique.
A literary criticism newsletter publishing serialized essays on modernist and twentieth-century novels, including dictator novels, Romanian avant-garde fiction and Italian fiction under fascism. Readers get close, theory-informed readings of individual works framed within thematic series.
Long-form essays on moral philosophy, culture and society, and literary history, with pieces on Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Schulz's Peanuts, and the poet Roy Campbell. The writing combines personal reflection with close reading of ideas and texts.
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