The long hours of an endless night in “The Private Lives of Trees”
When she returns, the novel ends. But as long as she is gone, the book continues. The 2007 novel by Chilean writer Alejandra Zambra The...
The dangers of artificial intelligence in the 1966 novel “Flowers for Algernon”
Charlie Gordon, 32 years old, IQ 68, is the star of Daniel Keyes’ legendary science fiction novel. Flowers for Algernon. Charlie is unusually intelligent for...
A forensic report on urban loneliness in Olivia Laing’s “The Lonely City”
How many times have we heard the complaint that cities are designed to be lonely? Streets and neighborhoods are gentrified to serve a certain segment...
A forensic report on urban loneliness in Olivia Laing’s “The Lonely City”
How many times have we heard the complaint that cities are designed to be lonely? Streets and neighborhoods are gentrified to serve a certain segment...