Everyone is quite excited: In defense of sports clichés. | paris review
“It seems obvious to me that putting on 40 different things every night is not attractive. Why would that be good?” Caroline Reilly and Megan Nolan discuss Patrick Bateman’s aesthetic legacy. | dirt
Diana Bellonby admits The Strangeness of Vernon Lee’s Ghost Stories. | Los Angeles Review of Books
“It is a world of girls and boys. Its fundamental charm lies in its playground quality, in its ability to express not our practical adult hopes but our simple desire.” Lillian Fishman on love island. | the new Yorker
“I’m more of a painter than a writing artist.” john kelly interviewFamous cartoonist Kim Deutch. | comics journal
Inside the studio of William Kentridge“A Safe Place for Stupidity.” | hyperallergic
Marco Bresciani remembers Carlo GinzburgAnti-fascist pioneers of microhistory. | Jacobean
“Most details are left unsaid rather than said; most everything is thrown into the pile of the unchangeable, the uninteresting, the unremarkable.” Alfred Jung Lee believes Strengths and limitations of description. | the believer
Damien Searles admits Translation into several Norwegian languages. | Granta
Samir Abu Hawash and Huda J. Fakhreddin discusses Palestinian poetry in the time of genocide. | asymptote
Five years after Anthony Broadwater was acquitted of sexually assaulting Alice Sebold, Joaquin Sapien returns to the story. | ProPublica
“Condemning actions without directly confronting them, misrepresenting facts, and taking elements out of context became tactics of culture warriors.” How the culture wars lead to art censorship. | baffler
