Articles & Essays

• a dark room on the other side of the world: in d.h. lawrence and moral fiction by Brandon Taylor
• Can’t lose what you never had: Claims about digital ownership and creation in the age of generative AI by Michael Atleson, a post about generative Ai and book sales
• Denis Johnson’s “Train Dreams” and the Importance of Genre by Charles E. May
• How do you know what to read? by Alexander Chee, June 26, 2025
• How to Find the Right Critique Group or Partner for You by Brooke McIntyre (of Inked Voices) on Jane Friedman's website.
• Morality and The Novel by D.H. Lawrence
• The Guilty Vicarage: Notes on the detective story, by an addict by W.H. Auden (Wystan Hugh), May 1948
• In “The Guilty Vicarage” (1948), Auden explores why detective stories are satisfying to readers. He argues that such stories symbolically reenact the experience of sin, guilt, and redemption within a moral framework. The line you quoted appears in his reflection on the nature of evil: he observes that evil is not an abstract, supernatural force but something ordinary and human—it “shares our bed and eats at our table.” Yet, despite its persistence and cleverness, Auden insists that evil lacks imagination, meaning it can imitate and corrupt but cannot create or truly envision the good.
• The Novel as a Poem by Douglas Glover