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He was missing, it seemed, the sense of victimization and woundedness and perpetual anger it took to be black,

Hanya Yanagihara • A Little Life: The Million-Copy Bestseller (Picador Collection)

He was possessed by an unrepentant adolescent spirit and didn’t reject the obligations of adulthood so much as he seemed genuinely unable to perceive them, as if lacking some basic sense that comes naturally for everyone else.

Fei-Fei Li • The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

In so many ways to live in 2024 is to be subject to a constant and all-out assault on our attention . It’s the ability to attend to anything — a book, another person, ourselves — that is being eroded. I’m increasingly convinced, then, that the next big vector for inequality is around this most fundamental of human capabilities. The elites are going... See more

David Mattin • New Week #138

I knew what I was against, but I couldn’t imagine what stood on the other side.

Hua Hsu • Stay True: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

We know, in short, identity politics, which, when it isn’t acting as a violent outlet for the narcissism of the age, can serve as its antidote, binding people into imagined collectivities capable of taking action to secure their interests and assert their personhood.

n+1 • The Face of Seung-Hui Cho (Kindle Single) (Kindle Singles Book 4)

newsworthiness rarely brings destroyed White bodies to the front page of the newspaper.

Teju Cole • Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures)

It doesn’t matter to me if both of these men are mad. Their voices still have clarity.

Maggie Nelson • The Argonauts

I listened to the Coup and read everything James Baldwin had written that summer. I learned you haven’t read anything if you’ve only read something once or twice. Reading things more than twice was the reader version of revision. I read The Fire Next Time over and over again. I wondered how it would read differently had the entire book, and not jus

Kiese Laymon • Heavy: An American Memoir

“I wish I could observe life like Maggie Nelson,” I said to my manager.

“You can,” he replied. “I think reading literature makes one much more attentive. I go from ‘writing op-eds about who is good and who is bad’ to ‘writing vignettes about what's amusing, unusual, or thematically resonant’ in my head. It's like, ‘What genre do I want my internal ... See more