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Blogging the Kanakia-During Fight (opens the original)
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One of my hobby horses recently is lamenting that Substack is almost, but not quite, resurrecting what I liked so much about the golden age of the blogosphere. As I wrote a few weeks ago:Substack is a return, in many ways, to the spirit of the old blogosphere. What the whole thing is not, however, is something that really travels. … there’s nothing cumulative about it, no real linkages from one person to another that build on each other and ultimately take on the shape of a conversation. … as a
The Gender Identity Episode (opens the original)
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On Naomi Kanakia’s “The Function of the Little Magazines” (opens the original)
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Naomi Kanakia has a fascinating new piece on her Substack where she applies her style of no-bullshit, see-through-the-mythology, count every penny analytical lens to the world of the little magazine (i.e. .N+1, The Point, The Drift, Jacobin, The Baffler, etc. - i.e. all heirs to Partian Review). It’s great! I love it. But I’m unpersuaded by her overall assessment of the function of the little magazines. She writes:<div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor
On Off Christopher Street (opens the original)
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The Puzzle of Gender Identity (opens the original)
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