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Fathers and Sons, Sons and Lovers
Nov 14 • 
Paul Franz
Poetry and the Censor
On D. H. Lawrence's Birds, Beasts, and Flowers
Published on Romanticon • Nov 5

October 2025

Review of Matthew Gasda's The Sleepers
Or, the hedgehog and his shadow
Oct 31 • 
Paul Franz
Spiritus Mundi
Tangents to some unspeakable reality
Oct 28 • 
Paul Franz
Trials by Existence
Further notes and fragments
Oct 22 • 
Paul Franz
Conjectures
Notes and fragments
Oct 16 • 
Paul Franz
Elegy and Effigy
Arresting Time’s Flow in Freud, Sacks, Bazin, Ariès, Munro
Published on Romanticon • Oct 8
Undelivered Glory
On Greg Gerke’s ‘In the Suavity of the Rock’
Published on The Metropolitan Review • Oct 1

September 2025

A halfway step to nature
On Malick's The Thin Red Line and the Ontology of Photorealistic Narrative
Sep 30 • 
Paul Franz
Through Eden took their solitary way
On Dylan: Two Afterthoughts
Sep 25 • 
Paul Franz
Three fragments
From the notebooks
Sep 12 • 
Paul Franz
In a laurel's shade
Una candida cerva sopra l'erba
Sep 4 • 
Paul Franz
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