“I doubt questions of justice are Mr. Hegseth’s real motivation. His career has long mixed celebrations of violence with disturbingly little concern for whether the people we kill are enemies.” I wrote about Hegseth and the idea of live-streaming an execution. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/o...

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OK listen listen listen I LOVE Leigh Bardugo and I LOVE Interview w/a Vampire BUT!!!! If you only can choose ONE, *THIS* is the most important literary news & 50th anniversary edition released in this publishing cycle

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“Emotional notation” is a workshop term for one of the central ambitions of art: to get onto the page experiences that escape language.” @garthgreenwell.bsky.social on @alexanderchee.bsky.social ‘s “Edinburgh”: www.newyorker.com/books/second...

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I always laugh when I think of Anne Carson’s introduction to her translation of Euripides’ Hekabe: ‘I have had for some years on my computer a file called "Unpleasantness of Euripides," in which I place at random thoughts on this subject…’

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The first time I this essay about my own first novel, by @garthgreenwell.bsky.social, I had the uncanny feeling of finally understanding it, of at least being perceived past the limits of my own ability to do so. A rare honor and a pleasure.

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