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"The Midnight Club": Perfection as the enemy of the Good

On Mike Flanagan's new series and the nihilism of insisting people are perfect as they are. In Mike Flanagan’s latest Netflix offering,...

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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Reader

"The Grand Budapest Hotel": On Remembering Lost Worlds

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"The Midnight Club": Perfection as the enemy of the Good

On Mike Flanagan's new series and the nihilism of insisting people are perfect as they are. In Mike Flanagan’s latest Netflix offering,...

Unseen Terror: How uncertainty feeds our fear

On terror vs horror, the stories of Stephen King, and dancing with death. If there’s one thing (though I’m sure there are many) that...

Truth Be Told: Do facts matter in fiction?

On objective facts, subjective experience, and whether authenticity is more useful than truth in art. “Kind reader, with keen judgment...

Founders, Builders, Heroes: What we need to fix problems

On the courage required to face our problems and the strength needed to overcome them. There’s a passage in Giovanni’s Room by James...

"Home is so Sad": The sorrow in the conservative soul

How Philip Larkin's 1958 poem describes the sense of loss that haunts the conservative worldview. Home is so sad. It stays as it was...

Eternity Now: How to tell a story about the good life

What kind of narrative can we build and share that motivates us to live well, in the absence of a religious story? Some years ago, a...

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