(Notes on) Panic & Plentitude

"American citizens in particular are encouraged to fracture their self-conceptions on the hard edges of panic and plentitude, suspicion and sympathy, particularity and universalism."
--Castiglia and Castronovo, A "Hive of Subtlety": Aesthetics and the End(s) of Cultural Criticism
F. W. Read. “City of Ruins.” Illustration for J. A. Mitchell. The Last American: A Fragment from the Journal of Khan-Li. Frederick A. Stokes, 1889.

F. W. Read. “City of Ruins.” Illustration for J. A. Mitchell. The Last American: A Fragment from the Journal of Khan-Li. Frederick A. Stokes, 1889.