Robert Rubsam
Writing on books, movies, the arts: NYT Magazine, Baffler, Washington Post, Atlantic, Liberties, Commonweal, Mubi, Paris Review, Nation, etc. robjrub@gmail.com
- What bullshit. John, Jacob, and everyone in books let me write about Bruno Schulz, Junichiro Tanizaki, Jenny Erpenbeck, Mauro Javier Cardenas, Fine Grabol, Donald Niedekker, Jo Hamya, and more. They actually gave a shit about weird literature, and I'm immensely luck to have worked with them.
- "This is how we propel culture forward: by enabling a myriad of individual artistic expressions, all independent of each other, that work to shift and expand the boundaries of what is deemed normal (or even work to eradicate altogether the false god we call normality)." stereogum.com/2480201/the-...
- Wow, not what I would have expected from the chud thug administration's chief chud thug
- New:Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol field leader, made disparaging remarks in reference to the U.S. attorney in Minnesota, an Orthodox Jew, people with knowledge of the phone call said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
- Rufo has always been a pseud, but there is no way now for him to interrogate the plain truth—that Trump's policies are so enormously unpopular and his vision for the country so odious that Americans will literally die to stop it—without acknowledging that they have a genuine problem.