Pope calls leaders who spend billions on wars 'tyrants' The Pope has spoken out about the world 'being ravaged by a handful of tyrants' in most naked criticism yet of Trump

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Love’s Work — Parapraxis The Generic Pleasures of Romance Anna Kornbluh

new in Parapraxis online!

Love's Work

the romance boom, psychoanalysis, Emily Henry, and creative labor

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Code for my book’s intro 😘😘😘

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Code for my book’s intro 😘😘😘

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Writing on loving drafts too much

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@becimay.bsky.social

Last seminar of the term: truth & exploded gum 🔥🤯✨

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I’m chapter 30 in a forthcoming Oxford handbook of Santayana. My first philosophy gig! It’s mainly about Wallace Stevens ✨💕

Excited for our panel on modernism’s meanest: Laura Riding Hates You (And You, And You, And You, And You)

Speaking on the theme ‘Laura Riding Hates You’ at this year’s BAMS, alongside brilliant @kristingrogan.bsky.social & Christian Gelder 🖤✨🎉

My Aldington piece in the flesh in the #TLS

Oh I didn’t know he’s written a story called The Small Rain! :) I won’t be long with the piece!

Let it all out By far the best line in Richard Aldington’s long poem of 1925, A Fool i’ the Forest, is: “Then I was gently sick”. Cutting through a fog of archaic language, mawkish anaphora and hifalutin allusion, t...

The #TLS let me vomit all over Richard Aldington 🤢 🤮

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:) let’s celebrate soon! 🥂

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Wow :)

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In case you can be tempted by a discount

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It’s happened 🩷🩵

Seems miraculous in the current political era that Polanski can succeed in being both a lightning-fast thinker and accessible, & hard-hitting and even populist without selling out 😍

Ha. Send me your email address and I will. It’s probs all nonsense in retrospect.

You were born on Jan 6th?

Lecturing on allusion today ✨

Zack Polanski challenged on “unproductive wealth”, welfare and international relations YouTube video by BBC Politics

This Newsnight interview with Zack Polanski is really brilliant 🤩

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Happy Dydd Gwyl Dewi from my little ghost

That’s no life! :)

Close Reading Is A Conversation (Vandal Live @ Emory U) Listen now | with Farah Bakaari, Johanna Winant, Dan Sinykin, Kimberly Quioque Andrews, Oren Izenberg, Lisa Lee, Daniel Reynolds, and many more.

“One possible criterion with which to evaluate the success of a close reading is how well it understands itself as being part of & beholden to a community, even as it tries to challenge that community's terms of engagement. Or, as Dan & Johanna phrase it, as a product of & an offering to community.”