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What We’ve Been Reading—Summer 2025 - First Things

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Justin LeeAssociate Editor Upon reading my short stories, Jaspreet Singh Boparai urged me to read the French Decadents, especially J. K. Huysmans. This summer I sprinted through The Damned (Là-Bas), enthralled. I’m now reading the rest of Huysmans’s Durtal quadrilogy, which fictionalizes the author’s own journey from unbelief (his soul “bogged down in the mud, macerating in a concentrated juice of old guano”) to occult spiritualism, to a robust …

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What We’ve Been Reading—Summer 2025 - First Things

Justin LeeAssociate Editor Upon reading my short stories, Jaspreet Singh Boparai urged me to read the French Decadents, especially J. K. Huysmans. This summer I sprinted through The Damned (Là-Bas), enthralled. I’m now reading the rest of Huysmans’s Durtal quadrilogy, which fictionalizes the author’s own journey from unbelief (his soul “bogged down in the mud, macerating in a concentrated juice of old guano”) to occult spiritualism, to a robust …

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First Things broke the news in on Thursday, August 7, 2025.
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