Dishwasher safety is the perfect bathetic note for Hohn to strike about these rubber duckies

Your local café’s barista may literally depend on Bon Iver’s reedy lugubriousness to palliate a dreary job as you depend on coffee

One radical option remains: abnegation — some “Great Refusal” to obey the obscure social injunction that condemns us to a lifetime of listening

the country had abjured all available weapons for combating recession

Encomia to these neoliberalizing achievements were the stuff of virtually all Argentina coverage in the English-language business press of the ’90s.

Three years earlier his second wife, Eva Perón, a former actress and an impassioned champion of the working class, had succumbed to cancer and been apotheosized as a martyr of the laboring poor.

No doubt almost any consistent economic policy and stable form of government would have served Argentina better between World War II and the Falklands debacle than constant, bloody tergiversation

translating one of Prynne’s poems involves committing to particular definitions of words that are intentionally polysemic

a sort of querulous complicity composed of friendship, gratitude, and interest

With me he’s sutured the gap in his civilian life.