Pseudo Reality Prevails

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A Substack about books, culture and politics--with a heavy dose of Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities. Work by Benjamin Anastas and others.

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About Benjamin Anastas

Writer of fiction, literary journalism, essays and criticism. Not necessarily in that order.

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