Tag: literature

You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Reactionary Modernism here.

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Part 8 of 8

Edited by Greg Johnson and Peter Jacobi

In 1995, Jonathan Bowden self-published his Collected Works in 6 volumes (London: Avant-Garde, 1995), edited by Jürgen Schwartz, one of Bowden’s pen names. The six volumes comprise 27 distinct books, 12 of which had been previously published. Altogether, the Collected Works contain more than 2,600 pages of rare early Bowden.

Onslaught is the third book in volume 2. It had not been previously published. We will publish it online in 8 installments. The titles are editorial. (more…)

Phil Eiger Newmann, Flannery O’Connor, 2021.

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Today is the birthday of Flannery O’Connor, one of America’s greatest storytellers and an underappreciated woman of the Right. In her short life of 39 years, O’Connor wrote two novels, 31 short stories, more than a hundred lectures, essays, and reviews, and a vast number of letters. Her fiction reflects her strong identity as both a Catholic and a white Southern woman.

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Part 3 of 8

Edited by Greg Johnson and Peter Jacobi

In 1995, Jonathan Bowden self-published his Collected Works in 6 volumes (London: Avant-Garde, 1995), edited by Jürgen Schwartz, one of Bowden’s pen names. The six volumes comprise 27 distinct books, 12 of which had been previously published. (more…)

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Part 2 of 8

Edited by Greg Johnson and Peter Jacobi

In 1995, Jonathan Bowden self-published his Collected Works in 6 volumes (London: Avant-Garde, 1995), edited by Jürgen Schwartz, one of Bowden’s pen names. The six volumes comprise 27 distinct books, 12 of which had been previously published. Altogether, the Collected Works contain more than 2,600 pages of rare early Bowden. (more…)

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Yukio Mishima, one of the giants of twentieth-century Japanese literature, was born on this day in 1925. He has exercised an enduring influence on the post-World War II New Right, not just for his ideas but also for his public images and actions, including his spectacular suicide at the age of 45.

I deal with his death in my essay “The Meaning of Mishima’s Death,” written in honor of its 50th anniversary, which I reprint below, followed by a list of other writings on Mishima, both at Counter-Currents and elsewhere. (more…)

Phil Eiger Newmann, Jack London, 2021

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Spanish version here

Jack London was born John Griffith Chaney in San Francisco on January 12, 1876. An adventurer and Jack of all trades in his youth, London achieved fame and fortune as a fiction writer and journalist. (more…)

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I feel more incapable than ever of loving a woman, because I will always love all the others too much. I wish I had a thousand arms, a thousand lips, and a thousand… temperaments to be able to embrace an entire army of those charming and insignificant beings at once.
-Guy de Maupassant (more…)

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Gustavo Escanlar

There’s a Japanese proverb that goes something like: “The nail that sticks out always gets hammered.” It’s a saying that sums up well the beehive-like society the Japanese live in. I don’t think this is necessarily a bad thing, in fact, contrary to what many believe, sometimes, as that Tatooinian Sensitive Young Man™ Anakin Skywalker so wisely said in that cinematic masterpiece Attack of the Clones: “We must let go of our pride and do what is requested of us.” (more…)

Phil Eiger Newmann, Flannery O’Connor, 2021.

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Today is the 100th birthday of Flannery O’Connor, one of America’s greatest storytellers and an underappreciated woman of the Right. In her short life of 39 years, O’Connor wrote two novels, 31 short stories, more than a hundred lectures, essays, and reviews, and a vast number of letters. Her fiction reflects her strong identity as both a Catholic and a white Southern woman.

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Yukio Mishima, one of the giants of twentieth-century Japanese literature, was born 100 years ago today. He has exercised an enduring influence on the post-World War II New Right, not just for his ideas but also for his public images and actions, including his spectacular suicide at the age of 45.

I deal with his death in my essay “The Meaning of Mishima’s Death,” written in honor of its 50th anniversary, which I reprint below, followed by a list of other writings on Mishima, both at Counter-Currents and elsewhere. (more…)

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John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces
Foreword by Walker Percy
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980

A Confederacy of Dunces is one of the greatest comic novels ever written. It takes its name from a line of Swift’s which serves as its epigraph: “When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.” (more…)

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William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet, playwright, and politician, was born on this day in 1865. One of the greatest literary figures of the 20th century, Yeats’ life and work straddle the great divide between Romanticism and Modernism. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

In life and in art, Yeats rejected modern rationalism, materialism, and egalitarianism. He saw them as coarsening and brutalizing.

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French novelist, essayist, and physician Louis-Ferdinand-Auguste Destouches, who was born on this day in 1894. Céline is one of the giants of twentieth-century literature. And, like Ezra Pound and so many other great writers of the last century, he was an open and unapologetic racial nationalist. For more on Céline, see the following works on this website: (more…)