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The High Style of the Hater | Nicholas Dames

The High Style of the Hater | Nicholas Dames

If Gass entertained any escape fantasies, however, The Tunnel does not indulge them. It's the big, the bigges…

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The Feeling of Becoming Less and Less of a Person

The Feeling of Becoming Less and Less of a Person

In Ben Lerner's new novel, technology divides us further from one another, and ourselves.

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"Disaster Has Happened and Is Happening": Tara Menon on What the Novel Reveals - Public Books

"Disaster Has Happened and Is Happening": Tara Menon on What the Novel Reveals - Public Books

"I wanted to propose grief as perhaps the most appropriate response we can have to what is happening to the n…

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Walking On Two Legs, by Nicholas Dames

Walking On Two Legs, by Nicholas Dames

Mathias Énard's interrupted history

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Dobos in Paradise

Dobos in Paradise

The Hungarian Pastry Shop plays itself.

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Tired as a Mother | Nicholas Dames

Tired as a Mother | Nicholas Dames

What is the tone of this literary-theoretical tone? Take away anything from reading these books together and …

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The High Style of the Hater | Nicholas Dames

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By Nicholas Dames
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He was, by that point, settled into his middle-aged frame: not so much stout as softly rounded off, a slow gravitational sag sloping all his angles into rondure. A kind of carriage-a word whose antique tang I imagine he'd have relished- that he would jokingly allude to in his fiction and with which he'd afflict his not dissimilar protagonists.
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The Feeling of Becoming Less and Less of a Person

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By Nicholas Dames
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Let’s hazard an assertion: On or about June 2007, human character changed. To be more exact—because the phrase human character now feels antique—we might say instead that the human sensorium changed. By this we don’t necessarily mean a sudden and definite alteration in how we perceive the world—in the forms, sources, and amount of information we absorb, and in how we conduct our relations with parents, children, spouses, partners, mentors, friends.
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The Feeling of Becoming Less and Less of a Person

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By Nicholas Dames
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The Feeling of Becoming Less and Less of a Person In Ben Lerner’s new novel, technology divides us further from one another, and ourselves. Let’s hazard an assertion: On or about June 2007, human character changed. To be more exact—because the phrase human character now feels antique—we might say instead that the human sensorium changed. By this we …
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