Centrists always present these takes as savvy "harsh truths" for the left, but they're the most pathetic kind of ignorant, cowardly self-soothing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Alexander Chee
Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. Agent: Jin Auh, The Wylie Agency. alexanderchee.net
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As good as many of you said. I really appreciate the unambiguous point that this primarily a racist moral panic before unpacking the nuanced second-order explanations. dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...
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What an aching and beautiful bit of writing this is.
James Mcconachie“What will this house be like in a hundred years Dad?” ‘It will be a ruin, I tell him, the roof burned off, the windows shattered, the stones scorched, blackened and split. The people of the town will be mostly gone..’ dark-mountain.net/labyrinth-of...
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"Writers have been using me long before AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit."
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I tore through this story via the 2024 best american shorts last night. Kept slowing down like I was wolfing a good steak because I didn't want to miss anything and then racing ahead again. Here it is online. "Viola in Midwinter," Marie-Helene Bertino