Recent Content  

• “God and Man in New Orleans,” NER, February 2025

A short story about a busy man in a New Orleans hotel meeting a homeless man claiming to be God.

• “On Sketching,” Et In Arcadia We Go (Substack)

A reflection on/argument for sketching.

• “The Destiny of Methuselah,” Splice Today

A short story about Tobias Breckenridge, the author of an essay on ‘history, modernity, postmodernity, and the fate of man as such.’

• Translations: “La Suprême Attente” and “l’Étoile Noire,” The Chained Muse

Two translations from the French of poems by Jean Delville featuring a reading of the first by the editor of The Chained Muse David Gosselin 

• “A Ramble,” NER

Short poem

• “The Archer,” NER

Short poem

• “The Voice,” NER

Short poem

• “To a Nightingale,” NER

Short poem

• “Geometers Note,” NER

Short poem

• “We Are Almost,” The Paddock Review

A  heavily revised version of an earlier poem, which will appear in Fret Not

• Geometers Notes, NER

Short poem

• “Rose and Lilacs,” The Vital Center

Short poem

• “Mr. Fritjof Roper-Schell and the Silence of God,” The Chained Muse

Short story 

• “Mr. Huxtable: The Human Being,” Splice Today

Short story

• “A Man Walks,” NER

Short poem

• “A Dozen Childhood Reflections and Reminiscences,” Apocalypse Confidential

A series of autobiographical reflections/reminiscences modeled on Paul Klee’s diaries. 

• “Ode to New Jersey,” NER

An ode to the Garden State.

• “There Goes,” New English Review

Short poem

• “Rain in the Twilight & Other Poems by Hugo von Hofmannsthal,” The Chained Muse

Three translations

• “The Poor Boy Who Loved to Dream,” NER

A short story about a poor boy who loves to dream, but has trouble earning his keep.

• “A Reading: “The Poor Boy . . . ,” Et In Arcadia We Go

A recorded reading of the above story

• “Between the Columns,” New English Review 

Short poem

• “A Grey Field,” New English Review

A short poem about Aphrodite

• “Rapture by Stefan George,” The Chained Muse

A translation of “Entrueckung,” another poem from Der siebente Ring (1907).

• “Grief II by Stefan George,” The Chained Muse

A translation of “Trauer II” (Grief II), a short poem concerning an insufficiently loved patch of woodland, by Stefan George from Der siebente Ring (1907).

• “Atop the Topless Towers,” New English Review

A short poem more or less about Helen of Troy. 

• Essay: “The Fate of Cain,” Mere Orthodoxy

An essay laying out my understanding of the character of postmodernity.

• Essay: “Bringing D’Annunzio to Dinner,” IM-1776 (The Art & Literature Foundation)

An abridged version of my essay linked below, leaving out the bits on my influence on Tik Tok and Harry Potter fanfiction, though preserving my digressions on Fiume and translation qua corpse ventriloquy 

• Poem: “Centaur,” New English Review

A short poem 

• Essay: “Translating D’Annunzio,” Et In Arcadia We Go

An essay on my experience of translating Gabriele D’Annunzio

• Essay: “The Mystery of the Roger Scruton Café,” Et in Arcadia we go, April 2023

An essay broaching the mystery of the Roger Scruton Café 

• Translations: “Quadretto di genere,” “Il cervo,” and “Un ricordo,” The Chained Muse, April 2023

Three verse-translations of poems by Gabriele D’Annunzio

• “There is a Jolly Traveling Man,” NER, March 2023

Short poem

• “The Dancers,” NER

Short poem

• Translations of “Um Strome” and “Im April” by Johann Mayrhofer and Emanuel Geibel, New English Review

Two verse-translations of poems by 19th century German Romantics

• “A Sort of Trumpeter,” New English Review

Short poem

• “A Great Prince and Princess, “Apollo,” New English Review

Two poems.

• “Sparks,” The North American Anglican

Short poem.

• “Olivia Wilde’s New Movie Takes Aim at Jordan Peterson — And Destroys Itself: It’s Stepford Wives gone Wilde,” The American Spectator

Review of Don’t Worry Darling (2022).

• “A Porcelain Mask,” New English Review

Short Poem.

• “In the Bosom,” New English Review

Short poem.

• “Jordan Peele’s Nope: The Reactionary Blockbuster of the Summer,” The American Spectator

Review of Jordan Peele’s Nope (2022).

• “The Branch” and “A Thousand Lances,” New English Review

Two poems.

• “The Tocqueville of Rock and Roll,” American Greatness

Review of Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis.”

• Three Poems: “Pan is in the Wood,” “On the Bridge,” “The Look of Light,” Apocalypse Confidential

Three poems. 

• Poem: “A Silhouette,” New English Review

Short poem.

• Four Translations of Poems by Gabriele D’Annunzio, New English Review

“L’inganno,” “Sopra un “Erotik,” “La buona voce,” “Esortazione.”

• Review: “Bored to Death on the Nile,” American Greatness

Review of Kenneth Branagh’s latest Poirot adaptation.

• “A Whisper,” New English Review

short poem.

• “We are Almost,” New English Review

Poem.

• “A Little Black Boat,” New English Review

Short poem.

• Review: House for Sale, The American Conservative

Review of Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci (2021)

• Essay: Sleeping on Beauty, IM-1776

A short essay rebutting the notion that artists ought to focus on things like ‘winning the culture war’/treat beauty as a means instead of a proper end

• Short Story: “An Urge to Sway,” New English Review

A short story about a young composer working on a new piece of music during a New Year’s weekend

• Review: “‘Playing God,’ Playing To Lose,” The American Conservative

A review of Scott Brignac’s feature length debut, “Playing God”