At The Comics Journal, I have a review of Andrea Chalupa and Brahm Revel’s Mrs. Orwell, relating it to the growing body of recent scholarship on George Orwell’s first wife, Eileen.
Academic Difficulties (July 2026)
The current issue of the Journal of Working-Class Studies includes an essay of mine about academic writing — why it is so often terrible and how in can be approved. Naturally I included Orwell’s six rules from “Politics and the English Language.”
Platypus Video (June 2026)
Back in April I was part of a panel discussion organized by the Platypus Society, on the topic of “Reform, Resistance, and Revolution.” Video of the event is now online.
The People’s Elk (June 2026)
The Thompson Elk statue has finally been returned to its place in downtown Portland, six years after it was damaged in the George Floyd uprising. T. Edward Bak has produced a nice little comic discussing the history of the statue, and I wrote a review for The Comics Journal.
