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Okay, here’s what I published this week.
Politics
Trump has no way out of Iran. (Public Notice)
Procedural radicalism is an electoral strategy. (EIH)
Musk attacks Nyong’o for the same reason Hitler attacked Jewish art. (EIH)
Why I don’t think Musk is a political genius. (LOLGOP)
Cultural criticism
Marisa Anderson’s Anthology of UnAmerican Music makes music for the world. (No Depression)
The Boys fights Christian Nationalism. (Religion Dispatched)
Emily Dickinson may have been neurodivergent. (EIH)
10 lesser known anti-totalitarian novels. (Observer.com)
On Rita Dove’s Sonata Mulattica and Black art in unexpected places. (Splice Today)
Detroit’s Arab-American radical noise-rock band Prostitute. (Chicago Reader)
Concrete Blonde feels all the feelings. (EIH)
The quick and the dead defeat Sam Raimi. (EIH)
Poetry
Two little poems. (Five Fleas)
in an alternate universe
I imagine that this
is an alternate universe
The Poet’s Lament
no one is buying
my soul
