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How to win friends and influence people 
On self-improvement literature and Sally Rooney
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Jessi Jezewska Stevens
The end of irony (and maybe Europe) (jk)
EU parliamentary results and the internet-native irony of the right
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Jessi Jezewska Stevens
A year in reading
(reading of a year)
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Jessi Jezewska Stevens
Class is back (sort of)
On the cultural boredom debates
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Jessi Jezewska Stevens
Fable for the Left
The post-pandemic decline of autofiction and the search for a new leftist counterculture
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Jessi Jezewska Stevens
A year in reading (2024 edition)
cricket, oblivion, and dancing bears
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Jessi Jezewska Stevens
A year in friends' libraries
(a reading diary, a list)
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Jessi Jezewska Stevens
Banking crisis, or inequality crisis?
On SVB, etc.
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Jessi Jezewska Stevens
Rooney Redux / Irony Redux
The end of (dramatic) irony Pt. 2 and the rise of language games
‘tar and feather’ meets ‘save the cat’
Tár, a bad movie, is the ultimate discourse machine
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Jessi Jezewska Stevens
Ghost Pains
story collection | march 2024
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Jessi Jezewska Stevens
How to keep a diary: a series
From a craft talk delivered at the University of Nebraska MFA Program (part 1/3)
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Jessi Jezewska Stevens
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