Life and Letters

On poetry, translation and related matters.

"IN A TRUE DEMOCRACY, EVERY MAN IS AN ARISTOCRAT"

A look at poetry by Joseph Bottum and Sally Thomas

Jeremy Wikeley's (poetry) notebook

Exploring books, literary lives and Cambridge women’s history

A newsletter and podcast about the contemporary American intellectual scene.

I write about the Great Books, classic literature, and the contemporary publishing world.

History, books & wonder

The Republic of Letters is a hub for literary and cultural writing; and a new, genuinely democratic type of magazine.

I teach at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Here for writing: experimental, fictional, constrained, with images, with music. All the art stuff is over on Academia, or on my website.

Nerdy literature newsletter. Helping you make the most of your reading.

Early Modern History (usually)

Musings about translation and book history supported by bibliographic data science.

Writing on writers - Nancy, Agatha, various Elizabeths and more. And on other things, from classical ballet to classic murder trials. Whatever interests me, and I hope you also.

literature & culture

essays, stories, poems

THE MOST RAUCOUS ENTERTAINING FREE AVANTGARDE NEWSLETTER IN THE WORLD.

Premonitions and reckonings. Orpheus and Eros. An antidote to positivity.

culture and society in late-Victorian Britain