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How to Read Platonov like a Communist

Chevengur, Don Quixote and Lenin, Idiots and Fools, State and Revolution

Apr 5 •

February 2024

Nietzsche and Us

One can characterise modernity as the realm of the relentlessly new. But it is also the realm of repetition. We are in an eternal interregnum. In the…

Feb 28 •

January 2024

The Use of Principles: On Aleksandar Tišma’s Novi Sad Trilogy

Bleak is the most common word to describe the writings of Aleksandar Tišma. His Novi Sad trilogy – The Book of Blam (1972), The Use of Man (1980), Kapo…

Jan 5 •

November 2023

July in Sarajevo, October in Gaza

Nov 2, 2023 •

October 2023

The Siege of Gaza and Moral Pedantry

Or, What is Moral Clarity?

Oct 27, 2023 •

September 2023

On Rosalind Belben’s The Limit

Sep 29, 2023 •

April 2023

A Man out of Time: Ernst Jünger’s Impotent Temporalities

Time is out of joint in the novels of Ernst Jünger. It is not just the timeless settings he uses – both The Glass Bees (1957) and On The Marble Cliffs…

Apr 19, 2023 •

March 2023

Haitian Divorce: C.L.R. James’ Two Concepts of History in The Black Jacobins

In overthrowing me, you have cut down in San Domingo only the trunk of the tree of liberty. It will spring up again by the roots for they are numerous…

Mar 28, 2023 •

February 2023

On Not Reading Herman Melville; or, Wu Tsang’s The Whale

With Additional Notes Pertaining to the Notions of Understanding and Insight

Feb 5, 2023 •

January 2023

Who The Fuck is Sylvain Lazarus?

A Breezy Introduction to a Fuckin' Legend

Jan 12, 2023 •

September 2022

On Christina Tudor-Sideri’s Disembodied

Sep 11, 2022 •

August 2022

Two Lovers Waitin’ To Die

On Horacio Quiroga’s Beyond

Aug 24, 2022 •

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