Joshua Gibbs

Why We Need Jane Austen More Than Ever

“When reading and discussing Pride & Prejudice with my students, I explained they would all meet Charlotte Lucas someday. ‘When you’re in your early thirties, you will someday be invited into the home of a young married couple, perhaps some friends, whose children are wildly disobedient, profoundly unhappy, and yet the couple will dispense adviceContinue reading “Why We Need Jane Austen More Than Ever”

Lately Added To My Roster Of Autumn Records

Recorded in the early 70s, not released until 2006, this record sounds like every inch of the cover.

This Week

Integrated Zeitgeist Solutions

Last summer, I saw a billboard for a massage therapist who claimed to offer “Integrated Massage Solutions,” which sounded perfectly absurd, but then I started to notice these terms everywhere. Everything is integrated. Everything is a solution. Yogurt companies don’t sell yogurt anymore. They sell “Integrated Yogurt Solutions.” Teachers don’t offer online classes, they offerContinue reading “Integrated Zeitgeist Solutions”

Every Now And Again, The Universe Bends To Your Will

Jarvis Cocker has made an album of French pop covers entitled Chansons d’Ennui Tip Top which will accompany The French Dispatch.

Sam Kriss Is A Vital New Writer

“How To Believe In Astrology,” the hit job on Alice Sparkly Kat’s Postcolonial Astrology, is magnificent.

Woke Evangelicals Interviewing Josh Harris

Harris: …and so that was when I knew I couldn’t be a Christian any longer. Podcaster: You just have such an amazing, difficult story and you are so courageous for telling it. There’s so much brokenness in the world. And I know that I’m not exactly where you are, so I guess there’s sort ofContinue reading “Woke Evangelicals Interviewing Josh Harris”

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