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Culture is ordinary and all that
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John Merrick

May 2021

Dancing Puppets and Fighting Bears
On Kleist and the Marionette Theatre
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John Merrick

April 2021

March 2021

On the natural history of ruins
On photographs, memory, and whether Walter Benjamin and W.G. Sebald are melancholic writers.
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Is your hate pure?
On the Mitfords, Cockburns, and the politics of love and hate
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John Merrick
On Commitment
In a recent essay for Harper’s, Thomas Chatterton Williams, the now somewhat notorious liberal writer and critic, responded to Viet Thanh Nguyen’s call…
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John Merrick
Fools Everywhere
On viaducts, nature, and lichen
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John Merrick

January 2021

Reading in 2020
A very personal selection
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John Merrick

December 2020

Dig Where You Stand!
1 “It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and draw conclusions.” So ends Sven Lindqvist’s extraordinary…
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Notes on sight
There’s a peculiar visual sense that living in a large city gives you. Everything is foreshortened. The buildings loom over you. The constant presence…
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Odds and ends
John Merrick is writer on class/culture/place for @BostonReview @NewLeftReview @NewStatesman @TheTLS @jacobinmag etc. johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com
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John Merrick
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