Tyler Abbott

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Lightheaded, back and neck aching, the music pounding, loud and familiar—the ceremony of experiencing live melodies and rhythms which were carved into my brain by nearly two decades of repeated listening. The audio equivalent of… Read more

The ultimate lesson (if you want to call it that) of Kavanagh’s poetry is that the universal exists within all of us, that the legends of old only became so after being pressed tight by… Read more

I return to these “novels”—and why I put novels in quotes will be obvious soon—quite frequently because they document, through a long series of brief quotations, notes, and observations, the misery of genius and examine,… Read more

Snakes have been on my mind because, today, I mortally wounded a small garden snake. The little guy was coiled at the base of a tree, hidden in the tall grass where I couldn’t see… Read more

Pitting one’s body against seemingly immovable and inhuman forces—the iron of the gym, the pitted concrete of the road, the shifting sands of the beach—is to partake in the deeply human experience of “struggle.” To… Read more

We build up a life—wealth, intelligence, accomplishment, a family, etc—and then death comes along, catapulting us into that next great mystery. Read more

If you could consider the internet our digital subconscious, then what AI produces belongs to all of us—the wisps and threads of our digital id, spun out by a mechanical ego. Read more

We see the “archaic torse of Apollo” and rather than heed its call to change, we turn away, craven to the core, scared of anything that pulls us out of our commodified, alienated, and “unique”… Read more