I wrote a little thing about trailer parks and private equity: unherd.com/2026/06/when...
When private equity came for trailer parks
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"This is a book that should be shoved in everyone’s hands as soon as they learn to read, like a Gideon’s Bible or a pocket Constitution." @anathanwest.bsky.social on Brad Neely's Creased Comics.
BRAD NEELY HAS A BOOK OUT AND THAT IS GOOD - Artillery Magazine - Contemporary art news and criticism
In Spanish, the term feísmo is used to denote ugly technique in the pursuit of ugly truth. In its canonical expressions, it pairs the slapdash with a
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Edmund White was a dear friend and teacher whom I miss terribly nearly a year after his death. I've written a brief memoir about him here: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Melancholy Is a Duty We Ignore
On Edmund White
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I love Brad Neely's work and I was fortunate enough to be able to write about it for Artillery Magazine: artillerymag.com/brad-neely-h...
BRAD NEELY HAS A BOOK OUT AND THAT IS GOOD - Artillery Magazine - Contemporary art news and criticism
In Spanish, the term feísmo is used to denote ugly technique in the pursuit of ugly truth. In its canonical expressions, it pairs the slapdash with a
artillerymag.com
I did not feel about "Transcription" as many others seem to have felt; nor have I ever shared in the enthusiasm for Lerner. The reasons why are complicated, and I've tried to deal with as many as I could in this piece that was probably supposed to be 2,500 words and is instead 6,300.
The Baffler@thebaffler.com · 3mo agoIn the fiction of Ben Lerner, real experiences struggle to break through a dense thicket of wordage. Adrian Nathan West considers “Transcription.”
I hope you'll read my short story "Dogelon Mars" in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social: thelondonmagazine.org/article/fict...
Fiction | Dogelon Mars by Adrian Nathan West - The London Magazine
From our February / March issue, a story of crypto, romance and the eerie sense of peril one can encounter in a short taxi ride.
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Take time today with “No Euskera,” a story from our archives set in Francoist Spain, by Ramiro Pinilla (tr. @anathanwest.bsky.social ). The story follows the journey of an elderly woman and her granddaughter as they visit her son on death row. Read here: buff.ly/SPOvB3s
I wrote about my parasocial jiu-jitsu BFF for the New York Times Magazine: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/m...
The Athlete Trolling His Way Through Jiu-Jitsu’s Culture Wars
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A couple bracingly sharp and intelligent Baffler reviews by Adrian Nathan West of new novels I haven't read: on a pair of books updating Bernhard and Perec (thebaffler.com/latest/imper...) and on Jordan Castro's 'Muscle Man' (thebaffler.com/latest/cuck-...)
Imperfect Pleasures | Adrian Nathan West
Two novelists take a stab at the literary remake—with differing results.
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‘The progressive press has jumped on the anti-alcohol dogpile, with headlines calculated to horrify’ | Adrian Nathan West
America’s puritans are back
'I’d say, and if you’ll excuse me, I must step away to pour myself a glass.' 'Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/.Getty.
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Please read this. It was a lot of work and a foray into a new kind of writing for me.
The Baffler@thebaffler.com · 11mo agoFrom @anathanwest.bsky.social, on Philly drill, social media beefs, and the death of rapper YBC Dul.
The conductor guides the philharmonic to the heavenly spheres. In fiction from Hermann Berger (translated by @anathanwest.bsky.social), the “orchestra minion” is responsible for keeping it on the ground.
The Orchestra Minion | Hermann Burger
I have not applied for the post of orchestra minion in order to revive the old feud between strings and woodwind.
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The passport bro lifestyle repackages old-fashioned sex tourism as a form of hypermasculine personal accomplishment.
Bang the World | Adrian Nathan West
Passport Bros repackage sex tourism as glossy personal accomplishment.
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What is a Passport Bro? Adrian Nathan West writes for The Baffler about men who travel to foreign countries in search of women who "value traditional masculine qualities." "Whereas sex tourism is seen as the seedy last recourse for losers who can’t get any in their home country, xenophile […]
Original post on flipboard.social
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Adrian Nathan West with an excellent primer on the mysteries of Paul Celan, focusing on a newly translated edition of his letters to his wife www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/b...
Book Review: Letters to Gisèle, by Paul Celan
Newly translated letters reveal the inner life of Paul Celan, offering clues to his enigmatic poems.
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This is a great article that might explain a lot about not just dating but the whole damn world right now...from Nathan West thebaffler.com/salvos/bang-...
Bang the World | Adrian Nathan West
Passport Bros repackage sex tourism as glossy personal accomplishment.
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On a lark I pitched a piece to @thebaffler.com about the Passport Bros phenomenon. Then I had to write it. It's out now and I'm very pleased, I have to say. thebaffler.com/salvos/bang-...
Bang the World | Adrian Nathan West
Passport Bros repackage sex tourism as glossy personal accomplishment.
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“The entire 2024 graduating class of Philadelphia’s police academy has been dispatched to Kensington, but absent a real plan, they seem mostly to be wandering around and telling idlers to move along.”
Come to Harm | Adrian Nathan West
In Philadelphia, cycles of neglect and unrealistic initiative have done little solve the problem of drug addiction.
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Ok my attempt to see if this app is real is to ask: throughout the Mediterranean, you can buy fois gras everywhere and you can't find goose anywhere. What do they do with the rest of the goose?
I wrote about steroids and steroid influencers for The Baffler: thebaffler.com/outbursts/st...
Steroid to Heaven | Adrian Nathan West
Loosening taboos around steroids is a laudable sea change for a particularly masculine kind of gender affirmation.
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I felt a bit saddened to see these two books float slightly under the radar and was pleased to see @ssacks.bsky.social give them, and Carpentier, such close attention.
Sam Sacks@ssacks.bsky.social · 3y agoNow online is my weekend WSJ piece on Alejo Carpentier, trailblazer of magical realism (though he used a different term) and purveyor of gorgeously baroque prose. The piece is occasioned by two fantastic new translations by Adrian Nathan West. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
I've done an episode of the Hermitix podcast on Hermann Burger. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3e5...
As a southerner I believe that these rotten-toothed grills I saw in a fashion magazine are cultural appropriation.
