I really enjoy Oliver Burkeman's newsletter and I'm excited to see him appreciate Paul Kingsnorth, whose writing I first encountered this year. I am not familiar with PK's novels, so I'll be investigating those next. His essay in First Things, "The Cross and the Machine," is one of the best pieces of writing I read in 2021:
I really enjoy Oliver Burkeman's newsletter and I'm excited to see him appreciate Paul Kingsnorth, whose writing I first encountered this year. I am not familiar with PK's novels, so I'll be investigating those next. His essay in First Things, "The Cross and the Machine," is one of the best pieces of writing I read in 2021:
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/06/the-cross-and-the-machine
Wonderful, thanks for sending that link! I'll give it a read this weekend.