Blighted HorizonsWhether or not we trust our kids to one of these centers, the effects of the Tamagotchified care they offer have migrated beyond their bright, unimaginative walls, setting the terms of our debates and afflicting our very self-conception as parents. Data, too, can be demonic.
Autobiography of InfluenceYes! I thought as I read U and I, feeling my mischievous, troll instincts emerge: I could do what Baker did with Updike, but with Baker. I could mimic Baker’s somewhat creepy near-eulogization of a still-living writer as a pretext for finally writing my Baker/Bernhard essay! I could U and I Baker, just as Baker had U and I’d Updike. This was my way in.
Doom ScrollFor nearly forty years her poems have issued from a voice so desperate and imposing that it has served as the guarantor of its own words. Do whatever she likes and she can’t quite lose. But the wins have not come as they once did.
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