Adrian Nathan West

Imperfect Pleasures | Adrian Nathan West Two novelists take a stab at the literary remake—with differing results.

A couple bracingly sharp and intelligent Baffler reviews by Adrian Nathan West of new novels I haven't read: on a pair of books updating Bernhard and Perec (thebaffler.com/latest/imper...) and on Jordan Castro's 'Muscle Man' (thebaffler.com/latest/cuck-...)

Cuck-Coded Zarathustra | Adrian Nathan West Jordan Castro’s “Muscle Man” thumbs its nose at wokeness while giving the right-curious too little to chew on.

Here's this: thebaffler.com/latest/cuck-...

Thanks to you for reading!

Thank you! There's another review in the pipeline. I need to email you. Hope all is well.

Oh I have more for you. I'll email you.

America’s puritans are back 'I’d say, and if you’ll excuse me, I must step away to pour myself a glass.' 'Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/.Getty.

‘The progressive press has jumped on the anti-alcohol dogpile, with headlines calculated to horrify’ | Adrian Nathan West

Someone got mad at me on X about this but YOLO

Please read this. It was a lot of work and a foray into a new kind of writing for me.

The Orchestra Minion | Hermann Burger I have not applied for the post of orchestra minion in order to revive the old feud between strings and woodwind.

The conductor guides the philharmonic to the heavenly spheres. In fiction from Hermann Berger (translated by @anathanwest.bsky.social), the “orchestra minion” is responsible for keeping it on the ground.

Bang the World | Adrian Nathan West Passport Bros repackage sex tourism as glossy personal accomplishment.

The passport bro lifestyle repackages old-fashioned sex tourism as a form of hypermasculine personal accomplishment.

What is a Passport Bro? Adrian Nathan West writes for The Baffler about men who travel to foreign countries in search of women who "value traditional masculine qualities." "Whereas sex tourism is seen as the seedy last recourse for losers who can’t get any in their home country, xenophile […]

I meant people trafficked in but also I am interested in conditions in Spain in clubs.

Book Review: Letters to Gisèle, by Paul Celan Newly translated letters reveal the inner life of Paul Celan, offering clues to his enigmatic poems.

Adrian Nathan West with an excellent primer on the mysteries of Paul Celan, focusing on a newly translated edition of his letters to his wife www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/b...

Have you worked much with sex workers sent to clubs in Spain? If so, any chance you'd drop me a line (my full name at gmail)?

Bang the World | Adrian Nathan West Passport Bros repackage sex tourism as glossy personal accomplishment.

This is a great article that might explain a lot about not just dating but the whole damn world right now...from Nathan West

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Bang the World | Adrian Nathan West Passport Bros repackage sex tourism as glossy personal accomplishment.

On a lark I pitched a piece to @thebaffler.com about the Passport Bros phenomenon. Then I had to write it. It's out now and I'm very pleased, I have to say. thebaffler.com/salvos/bang-...

Come to Harm | Adrian Nathan West In Philadelphia, cycles of neglect and unrealistic initiative have done little solve the problem of drug addiction.

“The entire 2024 graduating class of Philadelphia’s police academy has been dispatched to Kensington, but absent a real plan, they seem mostly to be wandering around and telling idlers to move along.”

Ok my attempt to see if this app is real is to ask: throughout the Mediterranean, you can buy fois gras everywhere and you can't find goose anywhere. What do they do with the rest of the goose?

Come to Harm | Adrian Nathan West In Philadelphia, cycles of neglect and unrealistic initiative have done little solve the problem of drug addiction.

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Steroid to Heaven | Adrian Nathan West Loosening taboos around steroids is a laudable sea change for a particularly masculine kind of gender affirmation.

I wrote about steroids and steroid influencers for The Baffler: thebaffler.com/outbursts/st...

I love this. I wrote a little about Lang Lang in the new novel.

Just reread Tender is the Night and was awed by how crisp and consummate the prose is.

I felt a bit saddened to see these two books float slightly under the radar and was pleased to see @ssacks.bsky.social give them, and Carpentier, such close attention.

I've done an episode of the Hermitix podcast on Hermann Burger. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3e5...

As a southerner I believe that these rotten-toothed grills I saw in a fashion magazine are cultural appropriation.