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How the LA Review of Books destroyed itself “All non-profits run on exploitation, but these guys don’t even try to hide it."

Boy howdy. nobaddaysinla.substack.com/p/how-the-la...

High School English and the Making of American Readers Abstract. The high school English classroom is the most influential literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars

As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵

academic.oup.com/alh/article/...

they showed it at the afi and it was the most beautiful thing i’d ever seen—have you read the novel?? a personal fave

2025

sara kippur, new york nouveau: how postwar french literature became american

fernando pessoa, the book of disquiet, trans. richard zenith

thomas bernhard, woodcutters, trans. david mclintock

irmgard keun, artificial silk girl, trans. kathie von ankum

ingeborg bachmann, malina, trans. philip boehm [reread]

amazing book btw

james purdy, in a shallow grave

one of our little book clubs is doing it so i’m excited to hear other ppls thoughts. i liked the coypus and all the animals

hiroko oyamada, the factory [trans. david boyd]

marie redonnet, forever valley [trans. jordan stump]

amy de’ath, not a force of nature

mahmound darwish, mural [trans. john berger and rema hammami]

joseph andras, tomorrow they won’t dare to murder us [trans. simon leser]

counterpoint: *all* LLMs are revanchist by definition

adam hanieh, rob knox, and rafeef ziadah, resisting erasure: imperialism, fossil capitalism, and race

Play, by james K from the album Friend

have you heard about this jameskmusic.bandcamp.com/track/play

‘Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather than a problem of desire (or the material conditions that shape desire).’

inès cagnati, free day [trans liesl schillinger]

bae suah, untold night and day [trans deborah smith]

Immunity, by Alex G from the album God Save The Animals

completely laid out for the weekend by the covid booster sandy.bandcamp.com/track/immunity

wrote an absurdly long review of this to put off other work i need to do: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

wrote an absurdly long review of this to put off other work i need to do: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

just read an astoundingly bad substack post that doubles as a cautionary tale against reading too much sontag & barthes and reading too little anything else

Vivian's review of Hinterland or, hillbilly elegy for maoists. ‘People shuffled up and down the cars, each looking as if they were searching for something specific, as if they’d lost someone they knew or heard of open seats in th...

phil neel, hinterland: america’s new landscape of class and conflict
[reviewed this one: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... ]

phil neel, hinterland

renee gladman, houses of ravicka