Everyone’s pretty excited: In defense of sports clichés. | The Paris Review
“It seems obvious to me that it’s not appealing to have to apply 40 different things every night. Why would that be good?” Caroline Reilly and Megan Nolan discuss the aesthetic legacy of Patrick Bateman. | Dirt
Diana Bellonby considers the queerness of Vernon Lee’s ghost stories. | Los Angeles Review of Books
“This is a world of girls and boys. Its fundamental charm lies in its playground quality, in its capacity to speak not to our practical adult hopes but to our simple wish to belong.” Lillian Fishman on Love Island. | The New Yorker
“I’m more of a writer who draws than an artist who writes.” John Kelly interviewslegendary cartoonist Kim Deitch. | The Comics Journal
Inside William Kentridge’s studio, “a safe space for stupidity.” | Hyperallergic
Marco Bresciani remembers Carlo Ginzburg, anti-fascist pioneer of microhistory. | Jacobin
“Most of a description goes unsaid rather than said; most everything is tossed into the pile of the unvarying, the uninteresting, the unremarkable.” Alfred Jung Lee considers the powers and limits of description. | The Believer
Damion Searls considers translation through the multiple languages of Norway. | Granta
Samer Abu Hawwash and Huda J. Fakhreddine discuss Palestinian poetry in a time of genocide. | Asymptote
Five years after Anthony Broadwater was cleared of sexually assaulting Alice Sebold, Joaquin Sapien returns to the story. | ProPublica
“Censuring works without having encountered them firsthand, misrepresenting facts, and taking elements wildly out of context became the strategy of the cultural warriors.” How culture wars feed into art censorship. | The Baffler