2023 Year in Culture - Freddie deBoer

Hello friends, it’s the end of 2023! Another year that flew by. A bit of housekeeping upfront. First, I have read all of the 2023 Book Review Contest entrants, and I am prettttttty sure that I know the top three. I just need to pick a winner and the two runners up. Announcement soon. Second… will you buy my book? Please? JUST DO IT! Buy a copy! Make me happy! Make Baby Jesus happy! Buy a copy for a friend! And now here’s my annual roundup of favorites and a “winner.” If you aren’t a subscriber and you want to see the rest, you know what to do. It’s tempting to just put “incels” here and be done with it, but that would feel very 2018 and anyway what I’m describing is broader and thus a little more problematic. I’m thinking of a kind of guy who has been found at times under the broad umbrella of the alt-right, named Pepes, or maybe incels, who have occasionally been denoted with the term redditors, who now might be referred to as gooners or coomers…. All of the various flavors of this ki

Hello friends, it’s the end of 2023! Another year that flew by. A bit of housekeeping upfront. First, I have read all of the 2023 Book Review Contest entrants, and I am prettttttty sure that I know the top three. I just need to pick a winner and the two runners up. Announcement soon. Second… will you buy my book? Please? JUST DO IT! Buy a copy! Make me happy! Make Baby Jesus happy! Buy a copy for a friend! And now here’s my annual roundup of favorites and a “winner.” If you aren’t a subscriber and you want to see the rest, you know what to do. It’s tempting to just put “incels” here and be don