The Existence Machine

As is the annual tradition, here is the final list of books I completed reading in 2016, in chronological order of completion. And as is the...

The World Is Round is a children's book written by Gertrude Stein, published in 1938. The book was illustrated by Clement Hurd, who...

Self-Portrait In Green came to my attention this Spring via a tweet from Aaron Bady, in which he linked to publisher Two Lines Press's ...

I learned of Otros Valles from Ethan, who has posted some excerpts on his tumblr and in general praised it. The author describes herself a...

Readers will remember my post on the 1992 essay collection Malcolm X: In Our Own Image , edited by the late Joe Wood, in which I reserved s...

I thought I might try a new thing here: blogging. Possibly even about the books I read! As of this moment, I've finished reading two b...

As is the annual tradition, here is the final list of books I completed reading in 2015, in chronological order of completion. As usual, lin...

In his book Faux Pas (1943), Maurice Blanchot has an essay called "On Hindu Thought", in which he discusses studies of Hinduism i...

On July 4th, I happened to read this article-review , by Paul Street, an excellent summary/overview of Gerald Horne's The Counter-Revolu...

Another recent-ish Stephen Mitchelmore blog post lamented (albeit in very strong terms) the state of online literature writing, its diminis...

Having recently read Thomas Bernhard's final novel, Extinction , I was interested to read this account by Stephen Mitchelmore of the na...

Recall that, in The Portable Malcolm X Reader , Manning Marable wrote that the 900-plus books written about Malcolm X, "with remarkabl...

Oof: What's preventing me from starting right away? I asked Gambetti, though immediately I added, We think we can embark on such an un...

In March I posted an excerpt from James Baldwin's 1972 essay "Malcolm and Martin". At the time, I'd meant to add a little...

The following is from James Baldwin's essay, "Malcolm and Martin", which originally appeared in Esquire in 1972, and can be f...

Last month was the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X. As I noticed people remarking on this, discussing the man and his wor...