Socialism or Democracy?
For a few weeks, while I was writing the first…
The Stutterer’s Song
There are many versions of Bill Withers, the steady, complicated singer who died last week from a heart attack, at age 81. There is the […]
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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