Archive - Always Historicize What Hurts!

On Spareness in Prose: Katie Kitamura

Does anyone know how to describe prose anymore?

Jun 3 •

May 2025

The Disappearing Literary Man

A Demand-Side Hypothesis

May 29 •

March 2025

"Twentieth Century" as a Genre

Some Brief Reactions to Edwin Frank's Stranger than Fiction

Mar 21 •

January 2025

Does It Hold Up? How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read

And a theory about the function of literary criticism at the present time

Jan 19 •

New Year, New Purpose

Jan 2 •

February 2023

The Teleology Problem in Intellectual History

Whither are we tending?

Feb 26, 2023 •

January 2023

The Thoughtlessness of Intellectual History Today

On the absence of rigor in contemporary intellectual histories

Jan 15, 2023 •

October 2022

"The Wretched of Middle-Earth"

Charles Mills and J. R. R. Tolkien

Oct 11, 2022 •

August 2022

July 2022

Cards on the table

My incorrect views on a few things, and an attempt to fix them

Jul 25, 2022 •

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