A Vision of Progress & Promulgation
Johnathon Victor Reese argues for a pragmatic application of Thelema's Law, emphasizing the importance of exposing needs, expanding awareness, and empowering
Category
Arts & Letters
Reviews and criticism of books, film, and other creative work, along with original creative writing, viewed through a Thelemic critical lens.
Talking with a Woman Who Restores Stained Glass
She has spent thirty years putting broken windows back together, and says the actual skill is knowing which cracks to leave alone.
Counting the Lights Along the Coast Road
Every porch light on a dark coast road is a small, specific claim: someone still lives here, and wants you to know it.
Three Poems for a Late Migration
Three short poems written across one unusually warm autumn, tracking a migration that kept not arriving on schedule.
Two Poems Written at the Edge of a Field
Two poems, each written in the time it takes to stand at the edge of a field and actually look at it, rather than simply pass by.
The Architecture of the Strip Mall, Reconsidered
The strip mall is the most honest building type we have produced in a century - it promises nothing it does not deliver, which may be why we cannot forgive it.
The Archive as Confession
A review of a new biography that treats its subject's discarded drafts as more honest than any of her finished books.
The Museum That Forgot Its Own Collection
Somewhere in the basement is a piece nobody currently on staff has ever seen catalogued, in a museum that has otherwise done everything right.
Notes on the Grammar of Apology
The grammar of a bad apology is not hard to diagnose. It just moves the subject from the wrongdoer to the wronged, and everyone can feel it happen.
In Praise of the Unfinished Letter
The letters I never sent taught me more about what I wanted to say than any of the ones I finished.
On the Novel That Refuses to End
The novel is six hundred pages of genuine craft attached to an ending that never comes, and I am no longer sure the author thinks that is a flaw.
