Monthly archives: August, 2020

Guest Poem—A Short History of the Bourgeoisie, by Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1990)

A favourite poem I clipped from the TLS and carried around with me from apartment to apartment for years…

Short History of the Bourgeoisie

This was the moment when, for five minutes,
without noticing it,
we were immeasurably rich, generous and electric…


What Ever Happened to Modernism? by Gabriel Josipovici: an Appreciation

I have written a fairly long “Appreciation” of Gabriel Josipovici’s What Ever Happened To Modernism over on my LongReads page: