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December 2017

December 11, 2017
Some notes on Advent & addiction. I've said before that David Carr's Night of the...

June 2017

June 23, 2017
So I finally read Michael Chabon's novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union, and in spite of...

March 2017

March 21, 2017
It is the last dream of children: to be forever untouched. --Audre Lorde, Zami: A...

June 2015

June 12, 2015
One reason I loved the Mountain Goats' new album Beat the Champ so much is...
June 09, 2015
There were times when it felt as though my children were annihilating me. Finally I...

March 2015

March 25, 2015
at the Hirshhorn: I got the idea for how to start this review when I...

October 2014

October 07, 2014
My best friend just had a baby! And so she sends me this poetic thing,...

September 2014

September 20, 2014
This is just a quick note to say that I read Tim Tharp's Spectacular Now,...
September 17, 2014
Look, I have to level with you people: This is a fairly good and poignant...

August 2014

August 21, 2014
Go here to see the chart.

June 2014

June 13, 2014
on music, drinking, and John Darnielle's novel Master of Reality. You can read it now...

May 2014

May 21, 2014
not really a book review! I read John Darnielle’s 2011 novel Master of Reality under the...
May 09, 2014
for AmCon: There’s a lot to love about this swoony, drifty vampire flick, a sensual...
May 06, 2014
Some luminous photos. Via Ratty.

February 2014

February 12, 2014
"International Geographic": I discovered that a lot of conditions which are simply a part of...
February 06, 2014
(being quoted in The Orthodox Way) God, so C.S. Lewis remarks in The Screwtape Letters,...
February 04, 2014
One truism of addiction science is that long-term abuse rewires your brain and changes its...

January 2014

January 29, 2014
ok yes, there's some really great stuff here--I thought it would be glurgy or hipster...
January 22, 2014
Craving is “the one condition all addicts agree is their worst enemy,” Lewis said. “This...
January 17, 2014
in the Weekly Standard: When we speak of “the permanent things,” we should mean the...

December 2013

December 04, 2013
Kafka has this great line, "A belief is like a guillotine: just as heavy, just...
December 02, 2013
with a look at the Mountain Goats, We Shall All Be Healed. This piece has...

November 2013

November 04, 2013
So here in the wacky land we call the Catholic Church, Halloween is the beginning...

July 2013

July 22, 2013
"Festival," he explained to Salai, "is like lightning. It has no history, and it has...
July 09, 2013
at the Wall Street Journal: A small but growing number of clinics for mothers-to-be are...

May 2013

May 30, 2013
at The Fix: Around 6 pm on a spring evening, I walk with Hector Mata...
May 21, 2013
Hey, so I read Brideshead Revisited again. I was in college the first time. Probably...
May 10, 2013
at The Fix: BJ Sanders of Lumberton, North Carolina, also felt the sting of judgment...

March 2013

March 31, 2013
"Why I Am a Catholic," by Calah Alexander. ETA: and more, in praise of Protestants.
March 28, 2013
Helen Rittelmeyer: The biggest difference between Samuel Taylor Coleridge and David Foster Wallace is that...
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