A spring bouquet of 6 brand-new paperbacks
Need to get lost in a book these days? Here's the best kind of spring bouquet: an assortment of fresh paperbacks, all recommended. "Homo Irrealis: The Would-Be Man Who Might
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Need to get lost in a book these days? Here's the best kind of spring bouquet: an assortment of fresh paperbacks, all recommended. "Homo Irrealis: The Would-Be Man Who Might
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The US novelist chooses her favourite reads
Spiral Jetty, 2018. (Photo by Adam Gray / Barcroft Media via Getty Images) One of the more tragic errors of our time is our ready conflation of what is iconic with what is well branded. In an effort at bypassing the difficult work of becoming someone, many of today’s would-be writers, artists, and thinkers opt to present themselves as walking pitch decks, glomming onto a marketable persona and riding it as hard and far as they can. Our moment’s lack of nuance is frequently bemoaned, but what strikes me as the far greater omission is the lack of real mess and breadth: the modern individua...