New on Archive.org, a useful layman’s survey of the intellectual landscape in which Lovecraft has steeped himself and was living through until the mid 1920s, with particular focus on American reception (or not) of such ideas and trends. Intellectual Vagabondage: an apology for the intelligentsia (1925) has an off-putting title, sounding now like some dour treatise against Marxism. But instead we find a crisp and accessible survey, written by one with ‘boots on the ground’ at the time, as can be seen here by the contents list…