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Looseness as an aesthetic concept, moral v artistic value, and the Pilgrims.

The Great Mortality: An intimate history of the Black Death, by John Kelly

A Christmas Carol

Lightning Reviews: November

On not seeing well

Lightning reviews: October

A philosopher watches Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., directed by Errol Morris.

Beethoven

Lightning reviews: September

Against incomplete story worlds

Fictionality and Evidence

Review of Self-Expression by Mitchell Green.

Lightning reviews: July

Top Gun: Maverick and “value maximization” in interpretation

Moral and artistic value, narrative and history, Bob Dylan, and more.

Why is this happening?

The paradox of fiction: a defense

Free Indirect Style Gymnastics

“An atmosphere of artistic theory”

Good stories and implied authors

Free Indirect Style: a theory

“Bionormativity”

Is Aesthetic Explanation Possible?

Some thoughts about Conceiving People by Daniel Groll

On Beowulf

Capitalist literary criticism?

A philosopher reads A Farewell to Arms

On Mass Art

On evolution and beauty

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is too hard on Mike Teavee

When the lyrics don't matter

George Saunders on Leo Tolstoy

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