We Are Failure

And a few other things

[Eugène Delaplanche, Eve après le péché/Eve after the sin, Musée d’Orsay]

At year’s end, I try (only occasionally successfully, usually giving up after a few days’ or at most a week’s effort) to winnow through magazines and journals collected over the course of the year that I have been unable to read as thoroughly as I’d have liked.

In the midst of that …