New Romanticism is attentive to those transcendent wants for things that will truly fulfill us regardless of time, place, or social circumstance.
Passing your eyes over those first, electric sentences, it occurs to you that his readers are still catching up.
For the milieu described in "Information Age," the first term of Trump marked a period of disenchantment with the ethos of possibility and progress that marked the early 2010s.
This is the way America works. This is the way parenting works.
The human impulse towards self-documentation is everywhere once you start looking for it.
Everything changes; everything flows.
When my grandmother died, I too had this impulse to record everything she said, and everything said about her death.
One has to reckon with a postmodern condition of meaninglessness and feeling of being too late to the party.
His books have prophesied dooms big and small for forty years now, much to the annoyance of our century's chummy optimists and milquetoast novelists obsessed with their own private misery and campus politics.
When an ordinary observation of life teeters into the mundane, we find ourselves in a parking garage.
It refashions some of the individualist precepts of the genre to craft a collective narrative of the mid to late century Black publishing community.
What animal is more fitting than the horse to symbolize freedom?