A critic can recommend a book that changed him. What he cannot do is recommend, at scale and in advance, the book that would change him next — because what a critic sells is continuity of criteria, and that book's whole function is to break them. This isn't a complaint about any particular paper. It's … Continue reading The Book Nobody Can Recommend
A World Without Repercussions
"Ultimately there are people who want to live, not in a world of reconciliation, but in a world without repercussions... ...It takes a lot to “cut a parent (or a sibling) off.” Usually it’s a question of safety, whether psychological or physical. And even then (and here I’ll speak from personal experience) we keep trying … Continue reading A World Without Repercussions
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