Original research and riffs on Herman Melville, authorship, and nineteenth-century American literature.
"These proclamations are an act of faith, in a new, as yet unnamed religion, and the vehemence with which one proclaims allegiance to these untruths is an exercise no different from any other ecstatic religious oath."
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/new-occupation-david-mamet
I have never met Ann Bauer but I know something about caring for people with autism in Minnesota. About misguidance and mistreatment by experts, all she writes in her devastating piece I Have Been Through This Before on Tablet rings true.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/i-have-been-through-this-before-bauer
My thanks to Jenin Younes, Walter Kirn, and James Lindsay for commending it.
