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NOW UP AT THE PILLARIST: As developed nations push an arms race increasingly reliant upon AI and drone tech, the purpose of war tilts in a dangerous, postmodern direction. ABSENTEE WARFARE thepillarist.com/absentee-warfa…

NOW UP AT THE PILLARIST: As developed nations push an arms race increasingly reliant upon AI and drone tech, the purpose of war tilts in a dangerous, postmodern direction. ABSENTEE WARFARE thepillarist.com/absentee-warfa…

Also up at the stack: open.substack.com/pub/thepillari…

@jamesdkclark Hope it's good!

Hello readers. Contrary to our tendency to review books, this time we would like to directly promote one: The Aesthete, available now on Amazon. The writer described it as a meditation on beauty centered around three women during a college summer break.

More regular articles for The Pillarist are still some time away from going up on the site due to a variety of greater (and hopefully temporary) priorities. Thank you all again for reading the site, and we hope to be back more consistently later this year.

The writer asks that if you purchase a copy for yourself you could take the time to leave a rating and a brief review on Amazon. This helps in its promotion, being independently published. If you are interested in reviewing the novel for a periodical or website, please DM.

"How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well-written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go out to where no one can help him." Ganbare!

For those of you who Stack, this post is now up on the substack as well. Please like and subscribe, follow, etc. etc. Or subscribe to the main site with your email address.

Thank you for reading. There is more coming in 2026, and I will see you in the new year!

Meanwhile, the most popular post of all year turned out to be our 2023 look at Yukio Mishima's Confessions of a Mask: thepillarist.com/review-confess…

Of the ten pieces uploaded to The Pillarist this year, Artificial Society II was the most popular. It can be read here: thepillarist.com/artificial-soc…

Now up at The Pillarist: Authors J. Ramseyer and Jason Morgan detail their experiences exposing the myths and the hoaxes of the comfort women regime during WWII. The Comfort Women Hoax thepillarist.com/review-the-com…

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Now up at The Pillarist: With Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon throws his readers into a chaotic, puddle-jumping detective story that is quite a bit more than a simple missing person's case. REVIEW: Shadow Ticket – Thomas Pynchon (Penguin Press; 2025) thepillarist.com/review-shadow-…

If anyone knows Mr. Pynchon's pseudonymous account on this website feel free to DM this to him

Audio to come when soon, possibly in a day or two depending on time. Post is up at the stack as well, for those so inclined: open.substack.com/pub/thepillari…