Sublime

Philip Roth explored this push and pull in his doppelganger novel Operation Shylock: “It’s too ridiculous to take seriously and too serious to be ridiculous,” he wrote of a duplicate Roth. That sentence has become my mantra during this uncanny period.

Who could have imagined that one would have forever to remember each moment of life down to its tiniest component?

to be a plot against America, to use another Rothism. I am trapped in the zozobra push and pull that Roth summarizes so perfectly: “It’s too ridiculous to take seriously and too serious to be ridiculous.”

Rabbit at Rest,

The Paper Millionaire, by some Arab-turned-Englishman named Roger Shashoua. He sat