Wednesday Links

The return of Oasis, revisiting the poetry of David Jones, reconsidering Delmore Schwartz, Dostoevsky’s strangest short story, and more.

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Good morning! You’ve likely heard that Oasis are getting back together for a series of live shows. “They’ve never monetized . . . nostalgia on this scale,” Eamonn Forde told The Guardian. “They’ll probably make more money from these gigs than they did in the entire 90s.”

It’s not the monetizing of nostalgia that bothers Ben Sixsmith. It’s just the nostalgia. He writes in The Critic that “there is something odd about our culture. Oasis are back. A new Bridget Jones film is on the way. Labour have achieved an overwhelming victory after years of Tory rule. Good news for Oasis, Bridget Jones and Keir Starmer fans, but one has to ask: will the nineties never die?”