Articles of Note

The book blurb requires too much work and induces too much guilt. As Viet Thanh Nguyen says, “Kill it. Bury it. Dance on its grave.”... more »

New Books

René Girard’s one-liners: Nietzsche was “so wrong that in some ways he’s right”; Sartre was “too even-keeled to become a true genius”... more »

Essays & Opinions

Psychoanalysis and the novel. Authors and analysts are repositories of insight about our motives and behaviors   ... more »