newyorker.com/magazine/1992/… Is this body the one / I know as me? How private these words? And these?

or north carolina may

I did it 🐬⚓️

i wrote about some of the connections between early modern history + the right-wing 'classical education' movement last year, for The New York Review of Books –– nybooks.com/articles/2023/…

Our new issue, 46.11, is now online, featuring: Erin Maglaque on the Venice ghetto Daniel Trilling on the Troubles Legacy Act David Kaiser on black holes Vivian Gornick on the Village Voice and a cover by Naomi Frears. Read now at lrb.co.uk

I wrote about the history of the Venetian ghetto for the London Review of Books lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

‘Christians came to the ghetto to have their dreams interpreted. Messiahs turned up roughly once a century.’ Erin Maglaque on the constraints and possibilities of the Venice ghetto: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

back from a weekend in the blue ridge mountains and thinking about charles wright: How pretty to think that gods abound, / and everything stays forgotten,

gorgeous essay by karen solie in The New York Review of Books : 'I was under no illusion that I was a musician. I wasn’t much of a writer either. But when it came down to it, I simply hadn’t been anywhere' nybooks.com/online/2024/06…

On the London Review of Books podcast this week, I talk with Thomas Jones about the history of the Venetian ghetto: lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-v…

A dream deal. I am beyond excited to work with Emily Bell at Astra House to bring PURE PRESENCE to the US. Thanks, always and forever, to the incredible Harriet Moore Aitken Alexander for bringing this book into the world✨

On the theory that every little helps, here's my London Review of Books essay on 14 years of Tory government, which gives some of the thousands of reasons why they deserve to lose every seat going. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

my perfect summer reading arrived: tuberculosis, duck blood soup, dread. thank you Fitzcarraldo Editions

From Pittsfield, Mass. via ⁦Alec MacGillis⁩

For the new issue of the LRB I wrote about ghosts, M R James, and the 1397 visitation of Hereford diocese...

I love this atmospheric, subtle novel by Ann Schlee, shortlisted for the Booker in 1981 and recently reissued by Daunt Books — all half-remembered faces, donkey rides up mountains, dreams in dense hedgerow…

writing about sleep. i love dürer's pillows.