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Culture

Books, cinema, performance, and the life of ideas.

On Photography: the camera and the world

A reading of photography as a way of collecting, interpreting, and exercising power over what we see.

Artifice, exaggeration, theatricality, and the unstable pleasure of taking style seriously.

A short note on the harm caused when disease is turned into judgement, punishment, or personal failure.

Jane Austen begins with a polished certainty, then lets conversation expose everything it conceals.

A fragment from Jane Austen's final completed novel, opening on vanity rendered with exact comic control.