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Modern Humiliation Monthly (book notes and short posts from the author of Gay & Catholic and Punishment: A Love Story)
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“Vers” Is Short for “Reversal of Fortune” (opens the original)
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The other night I had a dream where I was watching a grown man, who had once been a young man and looked like he had fossilized in youth, hardened and opalesced—anyway I was watching him descend a staircase in a swirl of glitter as he discussed his relationship with an older man. He knew that we wanted to know what this other man was. A predator, a Virgil, an old scar, a cache of love letters? Now we would see. He would show us. The camera panned down, I think (or maybe the unyoung man swirled h
Those Were the Days, Comrade (opens the original)
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In the 2010s, a Polish journalist traveled the world asking why people still thought Communism had been such a good idea. Why the cults of personality around Castro and Stalin? Why did Western dreamers who had never known Ladas (or gulags) still say Communism was what would bring true freedom?The parts of Witold Szablowski’s 2014 Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny (tr. Lloyd-Jones) that directly addres
Backwaters (opens the original)
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I picked up Alejo Carpentier’s 1962 Explosion in a Cathedral (tr. Sturrock) because it promised to be a novel of the French Revolution as seen from the Caribbean. And that’s exactly what it was, for good and for ill.I wanted that because “the age of Atlantic revolutions” is a hugely fascinating time—ideas of liberty, terror, equality and evasions of equality spilled all over the place, as if Somebody dropped a giant philosophical vase—this book about ship mutinies has a lot of vivid examples. Bu
The Children's Iliad (opens the original)
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Creatures, yesterday I encountered Nature: a lithe and mistrustful, long-legged cat, stripes and leopard spots against a coat of amber flamelike fur, crouching down beside a car to tug a foul treat from the gutter. I think this cat would like the Borribles.Dirty Old TownNormal kids are turned into Borribles very slowly, almost without being aware of it; but one day they wake up and there it is. It doesn’t matter where they come from as long as they have what is called a “bad start.” A child disa
Microeconomics (opens the original)
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[Continuing the story of Constance. This should probably be read after the previous entry. All the Constance-related warnings about violence of various kinds are still in place. No lifeguard on duty, swim at own risk.]Constance had never been responsible for preparing a banquet on his own before, even a small one. The Moores had all the social life of an ingrown toenail, and when Marcus Gould threw a party there were ranks of subs to order everyone around. Constance had been a napki
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