Caitlin Forster
@thenewsincerity
Caitlin Forster
There is no such thing as a “here problem”. Everything is an everywhere problem. At any point, the worst parts of the internet – which is to say, the worst parts of people – can descend on your town at terrifying speed. To see that environment rendered believably on screen is, ironically, the most thrilling part of it all.
Covid, social media, Black Lives Matter: Ari Aster's Eddington takes ...
The necessity of an ecological aesthetics, or not. We need an erotics of environmentalism.
Sally Rooney • Intermezzo: The global #1 bestseller from the author of Normal People
Many of the routines that surround the situation tragedy are realised through the con-sumer economy. Pollard’s narrator is aware of the manufactured nature of her desires, but in a Berlantian vein, she hoards hopeful images about how the family’s lives add up to something: ‘like every girl brought up to be a good capitalist, I want to be the... See more
Just a moment...
Decolonizing Language by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o review – last words of a literary giant
theguardian.comBut go on, what happened? Crisp bedlinen, fragrance of cut flowers, cold winter sunlight. Her simple physical sense of being in the world again: renewed, as if after a long absence. Turning of the seasons. At work, the dim buzz of her phone against the desk.
Sally Rooney • Intermezzo: The global #1 bestseller from the author of Normal People
This brings us back to language, and how it can both conceal and reveal. In its “Japanese people first” slogan, Qudan explains, the Sanseito party uses the katakana word for “first”, rather than the traditional Japanese kanji word. “By using the katakana equivalent,” Qudan says, “a lot of the negative associations can be replaced by neutral ones.... See more
Author Rie Qudan: Why I used ChatGPT to write my prize-winning novel
That brief window – before 9/11, smartphones and the chokehold of autofiction – when the novel felt as playful as it did expansive: bold and baggy as wide-legged jeans.
Flashlight by Susan Choi review – big, bold and surprising
Checkout 19 uses the movements of allusion to trace the contours of a future that it never claims to quite grasp, keeping the novel ajar to future possibility.
The novel ajar: literary allusion and the search for an open future in ...
To be a gardener is to give a fuck. To be a gardener is to be invested in a place—to know it, to protect it, to be present to it. How can we protect and heal ourselves and our planet if we’re not willing to step into, and value, the role of the gardener?