midcenturymodern:

articles and essays I keep coming back to:

• “joy” by zadie smith (about, well, joy)
  
• “roaming the greenwood” by colm tóibín (ostensibly a book review of the history of gay literature but actually just very incisive thoughts on…the history of gay literature)
  
• “the murder of leo tolstoy” by elif batuman (about exactly what it says in the title)
• “the love that dare not squeak its name” by david rakoff (about, i swear to god, stuart little)
  
• “a room of one’s own” by virginia woolf (I mean, you know)
• the entire lingua franca archive but in particular “bio hazard” by fred kaplan (about writing a biography of gore vidal) and “the stand” by daniel mendelsohn (about the role of a philosopher (martha nussbaum love of my life) in a colorado gay rights case in the 90s)
• “the professor of parody” by martha nussbaum (about judith butler)