Plus an announcement of some new Paradise Editions releases

Plus an announcement of some new Paradise Editions releases

Novelist Jordi Ibáñez Fanés sees through the founding myths and baleful consequences of Catalan nationalism.

To celebrate (and *ahem* advertise) the fact that my short story, “Vaucanson’s Canard,” is available for preorder as an absolutely gorgeous pamphlet from Paradise Editions (with i…

Publishedn during the last year of his life, these brief but challenging essays present the finest distillation of Kleist’s philosophical thought.

On NecronomiCon 2026 (1/N)

An impressively miserable lot, to be sure, but once Sebald advances from the general to the particular, distortions emerge in his gloomy but picturesque vision...

An impressively miserable lot, to be sure, but once Sebald advances from the general to the particular, distortions emerge in his gloomy but picturesque vision...

I'm getting surgery today

An inquiry into the civic culture of the plant kingdom

“It is all that is made.” Julian of Norwich

“It is all that is made.” Julian of Norwich

A healthcare and reading stratagem too clever by half

In which I escape the endemic deskilling of the American service economy

Have you really been utterly destroyed?

Have you really been utterly destroyed?

“The recollection of past beauty tastes like poison.” — Hölderlin “Communism of the Spirits” (trans.

On Éliane Radigue (1932-2026)