Robert Cashin Ryan

has written on Christmas, drone music, Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.” (1984), and other things people hate for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Avidly, and elsewhere. He also sometimes writes about imperial late style, the ocean, and Henry James in more ornate academic outposts. He is co-editor of the online magazine hyped on melancholy, a forum on music and sadness.