A couple bracingly sharp and intelligent Baffler reviews by Adrian Nathan West of new novels I haven't read: on a pair of books updating Bernhard and Perec (thebaffler.com/latest/imper...) and on Jordan Castro's 'Muscle Man' (thebaffler.com/latest/cuck-...)

Here's this: thebaffler.com/latest/cuck-...

‘The progressive press has jumped on the anti-alcohol dogpile, with headlines calculated to horrify’ | Adrian Nathan West

Someone got mad at me on X about this but YOLO

Please read this. It was a lot of work and a foray into a new kind of writing for me.

The conductor guides the philharmonic to the heavenly spheres. In fiction from Hermann Berger (translated by @anathanwest.bsky.social), the “orchestra minion” is responsible for keeping it on the ground.

The passport bro lifestyle repackages old-fashioned sex tourism as a form of hypermasculine personal accomplishment.

What is a Passport Bro? Adrian Nathan West writes for The Baffler about men who travel to foreign countries in search of women who "value traditional masculine qualities." "Whereas sex tourism is seen as the seedy last recourse for losers who can’t get any in their home country, xenophile […]

Adrian Nathan West with an excellent primer on the mysteries of Paul Celan, focusing on a newly translated edition of his letters to his wife www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/b...

This is a great article that might explain a lot about not just dating but the whole damn world right now...from Nathan West

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On a lark I pitched a piece to @thebaffler.com about the Passport Bros phenomenon. Then I had to write it. It's out now and I'm very pleased, I have to say. thebaffler.com/salvos/bang-...

“The entire 2024 graduating class of Philadelphia’s police academy has been dispatched to Kensington, but absent a real plan, they seem mostly to be wandering around and telling idlers to move along.”

Ok my attempt to see if this app is real is to ask: throughout the Mediterranean, you can buy fois gras everywhere and you can't find goose anywhere. What do they do with the rest of the goose?

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I wrote about steroids and steroid influencers for The Baffler: thebaffler.com/outbursts/st...

I felt a bit saddened to see these two books float slightly under the radar and was pleased to see @ssacks.bsky.social give them, and Carpentier, such close attention.

I've done an episode of the Hermitix podcast on Hermann Burger. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3e5...

As a southerner I believe that these rotten-toothed grills I saw in a fashion magazine are cultural appropriation.