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Three panels from “The City in the Sea,” an adaptation by Richard Corben of the poem by Edgar Allan Poe, from Corben’s collection Spirits of the Dead, Dark Horse Comics, 2019. Hello, patient readers! I thought about writing about… well, any number of things in the political atmosphere at the moment, but they all fill
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This is a newsletter about parenthood, specifically fatherhood, specifically fatherhood of a boy, which is the only kind of fatherhood with which I have any salient experience. The internet is one of the worst things to happen to nervous parents (which is to say: parents), because it is filled with the musings of malicious strangers
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A detail from Declan Shalvey and Warren Ellis’s beautiful sci-fi series Injection. Line art by Shalvey, colors by Jordie Bellaire. Hello, patient readers! For the new year I wanted to write something of undeniable utility to you, and if you agree with me and like this sort of thing, please tell me so and I
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For what I’m sure is now years—possibly decades—a debate has raged between the proletarian defenders of $400 million-budget megablockbuster superhero films and the bourgeois hipster film buff crowd, who seem to irrationally believe that it might be nice to see something else this weekend for a change. Recently, Martin Scorsese, director of such cult obscura
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The Watch This week’s big story In March of 2017 I wrote to the now-dead author Ursula K. Le Guin to request an interview for a story about the Trump administration’s proposal, since rejected, to destroy the National Endowment for the Arts. The email was one of a few—I cast a wide net, heard back
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I consume far too much conservative media. Any is too much, but I have a mild obsession with learning what the right thinks and why, especially the Christian right, and so I trawl the home pages of The National Review, The Federalist, Christianity Today and The Daily Caller for information—not the information imparted in the
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There’s another national anthem playingNot the one you cheerAt the ball park.“Where’s my prize?”It’s the other national anthem, saying—If you want to hear—It says “Bullshit!”It says “Never!”It says “Sorry!”Loud and clearIt says: ListenTo the tune that keeps soundingIn the distance, on the outsideComing through the groundTo the hearts that go on poundingTo the soundGetting louder
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Officially New Year’s Eve! Here are the ten best things I wrote in 2018. I hope you enjoy at least one of them. My examination of the way the CIA gamed the media to get Gina Haspel confirmed https://www.cjr.org/analysis/the-cias-unprecedented-pr-push-to-make-gina-haspel-its-director.php My explainer of what exactly Vladimir Putin wants out of Donald Trump, and what he seems
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I would rather eat glass than directly engage with people who think it’s necessary or at all useful to police the content of artistic work for political respectability as determined by the least generous contextual interpretation of that work and a similarly magnanimous assessment of the intentions of the people who created it. I shit
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