Into the rest, I sank with a kind of agreeable, warm bafflement.
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Why hold onto your books so tenderly, he asked. Why collect them in such great quantities with no intention to read them?
Rarely can one stomach the fact that to write political entails that you live political, as Cortez certainly did.
Narrative in the novel is meant to terrify. In the movie, it rehabilitates.
the pictures, of you, begin to resemble, you, less, the more, you scroll down.
Could a bullet be a language?
Shimmering at the barely visible edge of the horizon, the faintest color of hope.
and I must take this road from every example even if these examples are the document of my life and every one I loved.
lack of sound, lack of baby in a room, lack of the titular swaddle, a metonymic device also standing in for the baby, lack of something...
We knew it was over when his Nike wristbands came off, crumpling upon their release.
Write one thing. Write the next thing.
The Jeff-Goldblum-crossed-with-a-fly-divided-by-cat-dog-and-just-released-from-the-telepod-writhing-in-agony-in-a-pink-stinking-mess-on-the-floor kind of trans person?
Among the power brokers of the art world, the recent weakness in the market hardly registers as a crisis. But the effects of this deeper, structural change will be felt outside of art's capitals.
This idea of a costume worn as second skin, of sincere spectacle, as something distinctly American...
Is literature political? How about can literature use activists? If they are people too, I guess it can.
The story of Saint John’s Abbey Church is thus a kind of creation myth: an origin story that illustrates the advent of a new symbolic language, formed by the dialogue between liturgical and architectural forces, and forged for an uncertain moment of rapidly-emerging modernity.