A Norwegian philosopher once said that human consciousness was a terrible mistake. To be honest, we can’t blame him.
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Allegations about the fabled author’s uncle and his potential transgressions renew questions about how much an author’s personal experiences matter when we evaluate their work.
The sensibility of Gen Z is uncritical and anti-intellectual, assuming that everyone suffers from crippling anxiety and trauma, a sensitivity which any criticism might imperil.
Maybe information itself is more pernicious than the dis- or mis- varieties. The glut of facts can feel—in their sheer impenetrable volume—anxious-making, anomic, and numbing
Dos Passos’s epic trilogy still indelibly captures the United States in a moment of centrifugal chaos
Marcos Gonsalez’s debut novel provides an occasion for reflection and healing in traumatic times, now and past.
Pandemic life has shown us that loneliness and togetherness are closer to each other than we once thought.
It is highly unusual for this to happen, but the reader reports for In Search of the Third Bird, forthcoming from MIT Press, have leaked.