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The boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros- the boundary of flesh ad sel

While everyone else is scrolling social media and silencing life with noise-cancelling headphones, the performative reader insists upon his intelligen

Similarly, on X, the ruse of performative reading has come to mask a more earnest quest: to share one’s actual passion for books while also seeming in

If all human activity can be measured on a spectrum of authenticity and performativity, what metrics can we use to weed out the genuine from the fabri

If our authenticity is questioned—if we are caught pretending and playacting—what ground do we have left to stand on? If we are deemed inauthentic, ho

Personally, I have my doubts that we will ever live in a society where you can make a middle-class living from long essays about ‘the New Yorker story

The academic style has many adherents, and many people find it impressive. I find it to be impressive myself. But...there is room in the world for oth

With the New Yorker piece I was determined to do as much research as I needed to. But then I faced the opposite problem. At some point I was doing so

Thankfully, I am now proud to be part of a very different tradition—the fanzine tradition—that I think will play an increasingly important role in the