I have a new essay in this season's Threepenny Review, a dream come true. It's about laughter, drinking, death, my own deathly impatience. I hope you'll read and enjoy it.

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Quick one this morning about a good old @lrb.co.uk piece

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A common refrain of mine: "performative" is a useful term that means nearly the opposite of how its used on social media. Hanson here does a really excellent run down of both what that looks like and why that matters. Some very choice quotes in there too for anybody who loves freedom.

The weeks round up: @bdmcclay.bsky.social on Sydney Sweeney; @jackhanson.bsky.social on "perfomativity:" @williamhogeland.bsky.social on TCW's bad history and more!
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One of my students said “performative” the other day and I got a little wound up.

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ICYMI, I wrote about gender, politics, and, if you can believe, Roman Catholicism

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I’m not really here, but I thought you lovely people might like to know that have started a substack. First post is up, explaining my title and what I’ll be getting up to over there. Hope you’ll subscribe.

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Our winter issue is here! Featuring Andrew Martin on Alan Hollinghurst, Amir Ahmadi Arian on an elusive Iranian translator, Melissa Febos for our Objects of Desire column, new fiction by Ayşegül Savaş, a folio of long poems, and much more! Read it in full online now: https://buff.ly/4g2P9QL

As of yesterday booksellers at The Strand are on strike. Solidarity with them. Don’t cross the picket line, even virtually.

My new piece on the uses and abuses of Sainte Simone is up now www.thedriftmag.com/whose-weil/

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