Books I Read, May 2021
Dear friends, I hope this letter finds you well — it finds me at the end of a transformative month of reading. Not because I read life-changing books in May,...
Books I Read, April 2021
Dear friends, Last month I threw myself into the study of Turkish literature and history. Why? No good practical reason — just the aleatory enthusiasm of an...
What They Wrote About the War
Dear friends, This is a short, mid-month dispatch to tell you about an essay of mine, published yesterday in The Los Angeles Review of Books. "What They...
Books I Read, March 2021
Dear friends, If you signed up to receive the first issue of this newsletter, I'm guessing you already know who I am. But let's get on the same page, just in...