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How to Respond to Critics
Or, how to fashion slings and arrows from your own misfortune, like a Brontë
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Substackers Against Nazis
an open letter, of which I am a signatory
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Natural Born Killers
Arson, acid, and the deadly war against abortion rights
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Autocracy Now!
Donald Trump's burning path back to power
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November 2023

On the Big Terrible Thing
Matthew Perry's memoir, and the impossible math of mental illness
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Talking Turkey
We're in gobblin' mode
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Fuck You and Your Word-Stealing Machine
A Luddite stands against AI language models and their plunder
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Israel-Palestine: 100 Years of Coverage
Reporting on a conflict that didn't begin on October 7
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October 2023

I Have Decided to Become a Witch
If you write in to this column, I will hex your exes for Halloween
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America's Apocalyptic Cheerleaders
As violence grips the Middle East, evangelical Christians root for Armageddon from the cheap seats
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Speech and Speechlessness
On the world of words, and the world beyond them
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American Noir, Part I
On the misogyny of crime fiction, and the persistence of the femme fatale
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