essays about literature, culture, and so many feelings.

Intellectual Journal - essays, stories, reflections

This is Ross Barkan's newsletter - original essays on politics, society, and culture

"The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are." -- Karl Kraus

rantings and ravings about b00ks i like and dislike, articles i write and read, and whatever else i feel like, at totally irregular intervals

Criticism, essays, etc.

The Digital Home of the Mars Review of Books

literature & culture

radical rethinking of realism, wholly opposed to the creative-industrial complex