Archive - Passages

The lees of fire

An American year: Irving, Melville, McCarthy and Wolfe

Dec 31, 2023 •

August 2023

The mute beauty of the American West

On Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, in the New Statesman

Aug 13, 2023 •

April 2023

The Strangest Book Launch I've Ever Attended

An interesting debate in Argentina about informal work

Apr 9, 2023 •

November 2022

Dispatch from Chicago

On the mystery of the Great Lakes and the half-life of Midwestern empire

Nov 27, 2022 •

August 2022

Dimes Square Theology

By way of a few medieval fantasies

Aug 11, 2022 •

May 2022

Why live in America?

Crumps’ latest scene report contains a section in which I argue about America with another attendee of the Mars Review of Books launch party. I was…

May 28, 2022 •

This is Passages, a newsletter about Rhetoric, culture and mores in an age of contestation.

May 24, 2022 •

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