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Bret Easton Ellis
White
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019

When you see Bret Easton Ellis emerge as a Generation X elder, you know you’ve moved pretty far along the abattoir ramp. Technically he’s not Gen X at all, as he was born in 1964, but Simon & Schuster brought out his first novel (Less Than Zero) when he was still an undergraduate at Bennington, and Ellis’ precocity was part of the sales pitch. Read more …

Published: May 30, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American Psycho, articles, book reviews, Bret Easton Ellis, Charlie Sheen, Dwight Madonald, James Wolcott, Jay McInerney, Lauren Hutton, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, originals, Patrick Bateman, Richard Gere, The Daily Beast, Tom Cruise | 11 Responses

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The Eternal Recurrence Revived
Remnants of a Season:
The Collected Poems of Robert N. Taylor

Juleigh Howard-Hobson

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Remnants of a Season: The Collected Poems of Robert N. Taylor
Edited by Joshua Buckley and Michael Moynihan
Waterbury, Vt./North Augusta, S.C.: Dominion/Ultra, 2016

Beauty given physical substance is a magical thing. Robert Taylor’s poetical retrospective, Remnants of a Season, is as magical as they come. Read more …

Published: September 18, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Juleigh Howard-Hobson, North American New Right, originals, poems, poetry, Remnants of a Season | 3 Responses

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Absolutely Delightful:
Christina Finlayson Taylor’s Villanelles & Varia

Juleigh Howard-Hobson

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Christina Finlayson Taylor
Villanelles and Varia: Selected Poems 2004-2010
(revised and expanded edition)
West Union, West Virginia: The Red Salon, 2016

Contemporary poetry books are one of two sorts: they are part of the mass media po-biz machine, soaked in processed agenda and dripping with carefully honed correct thought . . . or they are not. Either way, very few of them are actually what you would describe as delightful. Read more …

Published: May 18, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Christina Finlayson Taylor, Juleigh Howard-Hobson, North American New Right, originals, poetry, Villanelles and Varia | Leave a comment

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The National Policy Institute’s 2015 Conference

Claus Brinker

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Recently on NPR, I heard an interview with Angus Deaton, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics. Deaton discussed how white people in the United States are experiencing an “epidemic of despair” as evidenced by rates of alcoholism, substance abuse, and suicide higher among middle-aged whites than any other population group. Deaton surmised, and the interviewer seemed to concur, that these trends are caused by increasing economic inequality between the rich and the poor, Read more …