For anyone who endeavors to read or teach "Paradise Lost" for the first time, I could hardly imagine a better single-volume guide to the work’s author, context, themes, and significance.| Front Porch Republic
Having talked about medical dramas, autism, and the hellscape depths of capitalism, we turn now to a simpler question: is there a piss kink in Paradise Rot? Paradise Rot is a 2009 short novel by Norweigan musician and novelist Jenny Hval. Translated into English in 2018, it follows a young Norweigan student starting university in […]| Death is a Whale
There’s a recent series of author biographies by Wiley called ‘The Life of the Author‘. They’ve got eight volumes out so far, with another on F. Scott Fitzgerald coming in December this year, and lately I’ve been reading their volume on Milton. The Life of the Author: John Milton (2021), by Richard Bradford, is split […]| Death is a Whale
I feel like I always start to get a little uneasy this time of year. Winter’s setting in, and I’m not really motivated to do anything. I have a few little things floating around, essays…| Death is a Whale
