In Patricia Lockwood’s novel “No One Is Talking about This,” the narrator starts off believing that everything is in play and nothing really matters. Then reality strikes.
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A Novel about Being Swallowed by Social Media
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Normalizing DJT’s Assaults on Democracy
A Brecht poem captures how the press tried to ingratiate itself with the president at the recent White House Correspondents dinner.
Social Media’s Siren Call
Chris Hayes’s “Sirens’ Call” draws on a Homeric allusion as it warns us against being devoured by social media.
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Carter Foresaw Algorithm Manipulation
Carter’s novel “The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman” predicts Trump’s assault on reality.
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The Best Minds Destroyed by Social Media
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by social media,” write a couple of tweeting satirists, referencing Ginsberg’s “Howl.”
More People Reading Poetry
According to recent surveys, poetry is more popular than ever. The same, unfortunately, cannot be said of fiction.
A President Who Hates Books
No president has been so adverse to reading as Donald Trump, whose contempt for books conjures up images of “Fahrenheit 451.”
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The Blue Guitar vs. Facebook
Wallace Stevens asserts that art changes “things as they are.” So does Facebook. We need the first to counteract the second when it is taken over by hostile forces.
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