Killing the Joke
Humor relies on the unexpected or at the very least…
Thoughts and Prayers
It is often said that people gravitate towards religion in crisis, but I experienced something close to the reverse.
On the Hatred of LiteratureThe hatred of literature, though it remains almost unheard of among the general reading public, has become the default mode in the upper reaches of our literary culture.
Let Them MisunderstandWatching Ninagawa in college, I had a single wish: that someone would clap and it would all suddenly be clear to me: the characters I transform into, what I transform from, who I am performing for.
Real CharactersIn the very act of presenting us with intensely alive, intensely real characters, the new existential novels invite us to move past the ubiquitous skepticism generated by the fakery of the contemporary world.
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