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The Social Pornography Complex

The Thinking Machine

A Flight From Slow, Sad Reality

The French Exception

Cinema's Last Great Gamble

Daddy's Favorite

Great American Allusions

Will Conservatives Make Great Art Again?

American Warfare

A Special Announcement from TMR

New York Groove

The Art of the Critic

The Performance of Life

Metallic Realms

There Is No Real Lolita

The New Era Is Here

The Terror of Mediocrity

Kill the Editor

Orgasming Without Pornography

Longing for Something Sacred

The Future of the American Novel

Underground Cinema

A World Beyond Words

The Last Colossus

Great American Psycho

The Rocket Never Landed

Substack and the American Novel

The Pain of Passing

Tiny

American Faust

The Gray Man Theory

Indie, Please

The Man Without a Past

Up Close With the Beauty of Gatsby

America the Beautiful

April Fools

Childhood Is Over

The Future of Literary Culture

The Devil and Mary Gaitskill

Searching for Bigger

Amputation

Tragedy and Its Discontents

The Town Where Journeys End

The Colossus of Brooklyn

The Last Contract

Ross Douthat's Sandbox Universe

The Moral Authority of a Body

'Ten Years of Useless Labor'

The Magic Eye

Toward a Sordid Utopia?

Stalking the Trillion-Footed Digital Beast

It Wasn't Real, But It Was Beautiful

Torture, Survivorship, and the Lens of Youth

Trying To Save Emilia Pérez From Itself

Stand Up for Better Oscar Bait!

Architecting a Myth

Teenage Dreaming

Thirsty for Piss

Shame, Sex, and the Female Body

Sniping for Love

The Poet of the New Gothic

When You Ain't Got Nothing

Would You Rather Have Married Young?

Interstellar Ineptitude

Paperback Vibrators and the Pragmatic Evasions of Literary Men

Desperado Dadaism

Cooties and Careers

Summer's Gone

Escaping the Panopticon

A Tepid Search for Genius

The Blind Spot

A Flawed Novel Addresses a Failed Utopia

Dream Warrior

Great American Misfire

Discovering a Great American Writer On Inter-Library Loan

Against Self-Actualization

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