Ten Favorite Volumes of Cultural Criticism

(in order of publication)

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (1955)
The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre, and Other Aspects of Popular Culture by Robert Warshow (1962)
The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature by José Ortega y Gasset (1968)
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace (1997)
The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World by Thomas M. Disch (1998)
Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures by Mark Fisher (2014)
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays by Hanif Abdurraqib (2017)
You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages by Carina Chocano (2017)
Picture Cycle by Masha Tupitsyn (2019)
Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service by Tajja Isen (2022)

— August 24, 2022