Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
inchoate
Hillary Jordan • Anonymous Sex
The liberals would cheer her death. They would light marijuana cigarettes and drive to their sushi restaurants and eat fresh food that had traveled eight thousand miles. They would spend all of supper complaining about people like her, and when they got home their houses would be cold and they’d press a button on a wall to get warm. The whole time
... See morePhilipp Meyer • The Son
“For the last twenty years, until recently, Jhumpa Lahiri’s stories were the template of ethnic fiction that supports the fantasy of Asian American immigrants as compliant strivers. The fault lies not in Lahiri herself, who I think is an absorbing storyteller, but in the publishing industry that used to position her books as the “single story” on i
... See more
Not Tragically Colored: Freedom, Personhood, and the Renewal of Black America
amazon.com


This is America, we would say to ourselves, there is no need to worry. And we would be wrong.