Adrian Nathan West
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Fiction | Dogelon Mars by Adrian Nathan West - The London Magazine
From our February / March issue, a story of crypto, romance and the eerie sense of peril one can encounter in a short taxi ride.
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I hope you'll read my short story "Dogelon Mars" in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social: thelondonmagazine.org/article/fict...
Got a cover for the new book, coming out in the UK in March from Thousand Horsemen Press.
September 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Got a cover for the new book, coming out in the UK in March from Thousand Horsemen Press.
Take a moment and read my story "My Mother's Mother's Death" in the new issue of @thebaffler.com : thebaffler.com/stories/my-m...
My Mother’s Mother’s Death | Adrian Nathan West
“It costs more to die than it does to fucking be alive.”
thebaffler.com
September 1, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Take a moment and read my story "My Mother's Mother's Death" in the new issue of @thebaffler.com : thebaffler.com/stories/my-m...
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Spending the afternoon researching avant-garde writing in Hindi in the long 1970s, for an exciting new book project, forthcoming early next year. More details soon.
August 7, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Spending the afternoon researching avant-garde writing in Hindi in the long 1970s, for an exciting new book project, forthcoming early next year. More details soon.
My favorite book I've ever translated
Enjoying (Brenner by Hermann Burger)
July 24, 2026 at 1:12 PM
My favorite book I've ever translated
I wrote a little thing about trailer parks and private equity: unherd.com/2026/06/when...
When private equity came for trailer parks
unherd.com
June 13, 2026 at 7:23 PM
I wrote a little thing about trailer parks and private equity: unherd.com/2026/06/when...
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"This is a book that should be shoved in everyone’s hands as soon as they learn to read, like a Gideon’s Bible or a pocket Constitution."
@anathanwest.bsky.social on Brad Neely's Creased Comics.
@anathanwest.bsky.social on Brad Neely's Creased Comics.
BRAD NEELY HAS A BOOK OUT AND THAT IS GOOD - Artillery Magazine - Contemporary art news and criticism
In Spanish, the term feísmo is used to denote ugly technique in the pursuit of ugly truth. In its canonical expressions, it pairs the slapdash with a
artillerymag.com
May 8, 2026 at 7:06 PM
"This is a book that should be shoved in everyone’s hands as soon as they learn to read, like a Gideon’s Bible or a pocket Constitution."
@anathanwest.bsky.social on Brad Neely's Creased Comics.
@anathanwest.bsky.social on Brad Neely's Creased Comics.
Edmund White was a dear friend and teacher whom I miss terribly nearly a year after his death. I've written a brief memoir about him here: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Melancholy Is a Duty We Ignore
On Edmund White
substack.com
May 7, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Edmund White was a dear friend and teacher whom I miss terribly nearly a year after his death. I've written a brief memoir about him here: substack.com/home/post/p-...
I love Brad Neely's work and I was fortunate enough to be able to write about it for Artillery Magazine: artillerymag.com/brad-neely-h...
BRAD NEELY HAS A BOOK OUT AND THAT IS GOOD - Artillery Magazine - Contemporary art news and criticism
In Spanish, the term feísmo is used to denote ugly technique in the pursuit of ugly truth. In its canonical expressions, it pairs the slapdash with a
artillerymag.com
May 4, 2026 at 11:54 AM
I love Brad Neely's work and I was fortunate enough to be able to write about it for Artillery Magazine: artillerymag.com/brad-neely-h...
I did not feel about "Transcription" as many others seem to have felt; nor have I ever shared in the enthusiasm for Lerner. The reasons why are complicated, and I've tried to deal with as many as I could in this piece that was probably supposed to be 2,500 words and is instead 6,300.
In the fiction of Ben Lerner, real experiences struggle to break through a dense thicket of wordage. Adrian Nathan West considers “Transcription.”
A Portrait of the Artist as an Artist Portraying the Artist | Adrian Nathan West
The seduction of the topical has dogged Ben Lerner since his first poetry books.
thebaffler.com
April 23, 2026 at 5:53 PM
I did not feel about "Transcription" as many others seem to have felt; nor have I ever shared in the enthusiasm for Lerner. The reasons why are complicated, and I've tried to deal with as many as I could in this piece that was probably supposed to be 2,500 words and is instead 6,300.
I hope you'll read my short story "Dogelon Mars" in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social: thelondonmagazine.org/article/fict...
Fiction | Dogelon Mars by Adrian Nathan West - The London Magazine
From our February / March issue, a story of crypto, romance and the eerie sense of peril one can encounter in a short taxi ride.
thelondonmagazine.org
February 2, 2026 at 8:13 PM
I hope you'll read my short story "Dogelon Mars" in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social: thelondonmagazine.org/article/fict...
I did this
‘Our Marxist or Fourierist experiment took place in a house valued at around $10,000; 25 years later, the block is mostly white, and homes there sell for up to half a million.’
Read Adrian Nathan West on being a gentrifier👇
unherd.com/2026/01/the-...
Read Adrian Nathan West on being a gentrifier👇
unherd.com/2026/01/the-...
The liberal lie about gentrification
Rent control is back in fashion. (Credit: Stephanie Keith / Getty Images)
unherd.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:08 PM
I did this
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Take time today with “No Euskera,” a story from our archives set in Francoist Spain, by Ramiro Pinilla (tr. @anathanwest.bsky.social ). The story follows the journey of an elderly woman and her granddaughter as they visit her son on death row.
Read here: buff.ly/SPOvB3s
Read here: buff.ly/SPOvB3s
January 12, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Take time today with “No Euskera,” a story from our archives set in Francoist Spain, by Ramiro Pinilla (tr. @anathanwest.bsky.social ). The story follows the journey of an elderly woman and her granddaughter as they visit her son on death row.
Read here: buff.ly/SPOvB3s
Read here: buff.ly/SPOvB3s
I wrote about my parasocial jiu-jitsu BFF for the New York Times Magazine: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/m...
The Athlete Trolling His Way Through Jiu-Jitsu’s Culture Wars
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November 28, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I wrote about my parasocial jiu-jitsu BFF for the New York Times Magazine: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/m...
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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-...)
Imperfect Pleasures | Adrian Nathan West
Two novelists take a stab at the literary remake—with differing results.
thebaffler.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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-...)
Here's this: 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.
thebaffler.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Here's this: thebaffler.com/latest/cuck-...
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‘The progressive press has jumped on the anti-alcohol dogpile, with headlines calculated to horrify’ | Adrian Nathan West
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.
unherd.com
May 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
‘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
Zoe Dubno’s “Happiness and Love” and Vincenzo Latronico’s “Perfection” are, in a sense, remakes of older novels. @anathanwest.bsky.social writes on the literary redo.
Imperfect Pleasures | Adrian Nathan West
Two novelists take a stab at the literary remake—with differing results.
thebaffler.com
September 6, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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.
From @anathanwest.bsky.social, on Philly drill, social media beefs, and the death of rapper YBC Dul.
I Will Disrespect You | Adrian Nathan West
Rap beef now can involve a degree of violence perhaps unimaginable to previous generations.
thebaffler.com
September 6, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Please read this. It was a lot of work and a foray into a new kind of writing for me.
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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.
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.
thebaffler.com
April 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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.
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The passport bro lifestyle repackages old-fashioned sex tourism as a form of hypermasculine personal accomplishment.
Bang the World | Adrian Nathan West
Passport Bros repackage sex tourism as glossy personal accomplishment.
thebaffler.com
January 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The passport bro lifestyle repackages old-fashioned sex tourism as a form of hypermasculine personal accomplishment.
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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 […]
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January 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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 […]
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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...
Book Review: Letters to Gisèle, by Paul Celan
Newly translated letters reveal the inner life of Paul Celan, offering clues to his enigmatic poems.
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December 23, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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...
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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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thebaffler.com/salvos/bang-...
Bang the World | Adrian Nathan West
Passport Bros repackage sex tourism as glossy personal accomplishment.
thebaffler.com
January 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This is a great article that might explain a lot about not just dating but the whole damn world right now...from Nathan West
thebaffler.com/salvos/bang-...
thebaffler.com/salvos/bang-...
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-...
Bang the World | Adrian Nathan West
Passport Bros repackage sex tourism as glossy personal accomplishment.
thebaffler.com
January 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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-...
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“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.”
Come to Harm | Adrian Nathan West
In Philadelphia, cycles of neglect and unrealistic initiative have done little solve the problem of drug addiction.
thebaffler.com
November 15, 2024 at 9:44 PM
“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.”