Archive - ashes and sparks

Triple distilled flowers

Pent in walls of glass

Jul 2 •

June 2025

After the storm

From the notebook

Jun 15 •

A kind of dual proxy work

Geoffrey Hill's antic dispositions

Jun 5 •

May 2025

The argosy of your error

On the Mexican Navy, Hart Crane, and the poetry of New York Harbor

May 26 •

The end of the line

Journeys to where you are

May 11 •

April 2025

The Black Circle

On a recent biography of Alexandre Kojève, part 1

Apr 24 •

Apr 15 •

On sex and violence

Notes on HBO's The Leftovers

Apr 8 •

Apr 3 •

March 2025

Mar 27 •

I notice you in all these things

Mar 21 •

The Cassandra Complex

On Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys and AI's Doom-Loop

Mar 13 •

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