Pathways

Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking and how writers are keeping up. Here are some routes we found in early 2025 on our modern life.

Remembering David Lynch—through Francis Bacon The Washington Post

A quantitative analysis of medieval and early modern female scribes Nature

“We’re still waiting, always waiting”: Anthony Domestico on the poetry of Scott Cairns Commonweal

The “New Literalism” and the decline of cinema The New Yorker

Literature as an ethical impulse The Guardian

A Brutalist revival The Nation

A poetry series returns to Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Magazine

Video: Emily Wilson’s modern Homer International Poetry Forum

Genealogies of Modernity is now live on Substack!