Issue #128: (Anime) casinos, Barnacles, and commercials

Earlier today, I read Daniel Mendelsohn’s 2018 review of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle Book 6 and pondered the aesthetic heights my newsletter can yet reach. You see, Mendelsohn compares My Struggle unfavorably to the USA drama series Suits (2011), a paradigmatically ‘me’ sort of maneuver, as a friend of mine noted. But Mendelsohn is also a brillian…