Is he writing it for the wrong reasons?
Whatever Walsh says, there is no viable alternative the internet offers to art and politics. Though I suppose it is entertaining to think otherwise.
Obsession is by one turn the way that these characters achieve their meager success, but it is also, by another, the fatal flaw in their efforts to reach the perfection they seek.
A weaving association of human desires, the reading of which moves the mind as living does.
Issues that, despite the great age of the texts we find them in, speak directly to our current moment.
These are not deplorables. They are people navigating challenging circumstances with the tools available to them.
The nature of her celebrity means that the world shapes itself around M.
It is as if he took an old rotting book, hollowed it out, and stuffed his own weird little objects in there.
the book presents the odd spectacle of a more interesting writer admiring the work of a less interesting writer. It is the complete reverse of the Sontag book
An impressively miserable lot, to be sure, but once Sebald advances from the general to the particular, distortions emerge in his gloomy but picturesque vision...
In Generation X, the characters draw close to each other through telling stories. In Burnside, the stories have been replaced by rumors.