Jon Repetti is a writer and critic living in Philadelphia.

He’s also a PhD candidate in English and works in academic publishing.

He tweets @pourfairelevide and blogs @FiveGoodHours on Substack.

Secret Images of Freedom: On Mariette Navarro’s Ultramarine - Full Stop (forthcoming, Spring 2025)

Review of Murder in the Doll House by Rich Cohen - The Metropolitan Review (forthcoming, Summer 2025)

Autofiction’s Primal Scene - LARB (forthcoming, Summer 2025)

Review of Reading Hegel: Irony, Recollection Critique by Robert Lucas Scott - Critical Quarterly (forthcoming, Fall 2025)

Laocoön’s Gaze: On Aliocha Coll, the Two Attila’s, and the Literature of No Future - Review31 (2025)

“Ten Years of Useless Labor”: On Danzy Senna’s Colored Television - The Metropolitan Review (2025)

Question Begging (fiction) - Maudlin House (2025)

The Novel After Character - Inner Life Collective (2025)

Still Ticking - American Philosophical Society Blog (2024)

Two Poems - Neologism (2023)

The Cracks in Being: On Edwin Elmer’s Mourning Picture - Paperbark Magazine (2023)

Three Poems - Moss Puppy Magazine (2023)

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