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Perhaps their photographs don’t make us think of the photographers’ bravery, the way other conflict pictures do, or urge us to immediate action. We look at them anyway, for the change that they bring about elsewhere: in the core of the sympathetic self. We look at them for the way they cooperate with the imagination, the way they contain what canno
... See moreTeju Cole • Known and Strange Things
I waited in the parking lot of my apartment for a white woman walking out of the complex to get in her car so I wouldn’t scare her.
Kiese Laymon • Heavy: An American Memoir
We hit the road in the hope of finding what we’re looking for—or at least sufficiently distracting ourselves from the hungers and haunting absences that propelled our departure in the first place.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
Yoko Tawada’s Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel , translated by Susan Bernofsky, set in post-lockdown Berlin, is an absurd, dark, dreamlike narrative that meditates on warfare, religion, memory, migration, and belonging through the strange consciousness of a literary researcher, Patrik. A Celan scholar who self-identifies as “the patient,” Pat... See more