One year I will do an Advent series on the O Antiphons, but in the meantime: O Oriens, O Earendel.
Continuing my series on family, I reflect on Anita Desai’s novel Clear Light of Day. I’m posting one such meditation per week, to give myself (and my readers) time to think things over.
where does Dasein go when he’s feeling down
I wrote about the difference between being an influencer and doing a job of work.
Robin Sloan: “Cults: yes. They have been necessary, at all times in all places, for the long-term transΒmisΒsion of art of any/every kind. Maybe the difference, here and now in the short 2020s, is that you need one right from theΒ start.”
In which I explain to Ross Douthat that we cannot make pop culture great again β but that’s okay! There’s good news!
Dennis Overbye is retiring, which mens he has to give up his business card that identifies him as the New York Times Cosmic Affairs Correspondent.
β©οΈ View of snow at Benten HIll, KinryΕ«zan Temple, Asakusa, 1853, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797β1861). Woodblock print. From the Ashmolean’s Advent Calendar. Not very Adventish, but very cool.
