I have recently launched my own Substack, as a vehicle for draft writing, experiments with text and image, and commentary on current events. A place to think with. Subscription is free—subscribers will receive a copy of each new post in their email.

Posts so far published include one long essay (eyeless in Gaza: paratexts, contexts, and the weaponization of october 7) and several shorter pieces on the history and politics of the current war in Gaza (a massacre of thoughts, 8 Jan; are you, or have you ever been, 10 Jan; an open letter to Canadian foreign minister mélanie joly, 27 Jan; the west responds to ICJ ruling of urgent risk of genocide in Gaza by defunding key aid agency, 28 Jan; who did the ICJ ruling on Gaza vindicate, 9 Feb); a four-part essay on Richard Strauss’s Salome and Four Last Songs (how middlebrow triumphs over death #1, #2, #3 and coda); an appreciation of John Prine and Iris DeMent (cryin’ into the skiller, 8 Jan); and a running series of photoessays juxtaposing image and text (unexpected encounters: introduction, 2 Feb; #1 the gaze, 2 Feb; #2 imaginary, symbolic, real, 5 Feb).

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