Listener's Digest: April 29, 2023
Having vowed to give up reading books, I here confess my abject failure. I’ve not only read, but reviewed, two new ones: Wendy Brown’s Nihilistic Times, for the LA Review of Books, and What’s the Use of Philosophy? by Philip Kitcher, for the LRB.
What I promised you instead was rock ’n’ roll, and there I’ve had some success. The National’s new album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, came out yesterday and while I’ve not had time to listen to it carefully, I know it will be good. My favourite single so far celebrates another band:
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