This Week's Writing 4/14/24

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Here’s what I published this week!

If you read one thing by me this week, read:

On Alex Garland’s “Men” and identification in rape/revenge films. (EIH)

Politics

The Republican party keeps picking terrible Senate candidates because it is terrible. (Public Notice)

Justice Breyer and ruling class solidarity. (EIH)

Cultural Criticism

On “Monkey Man” and why diverse action movies are better. (CNN.com)

Garland’s “Civil War” is less about American divisions and more about American solipsism. (CNN.com)

The public and private art of Alice Shaddle. (Observer.com)

The Beekeeper is a bad movie but a good public service announcement. (EIH)

The manliness of Mr. Spock. (EIH)

Marriage shouldn’t be work. (EIH)

Poetry

Up to date poem! (Five Fleas)

old frog
the sound of water
or ChatGPT

An existential realization. (Five Fleas)

Those
are not
my
packages.