Books Decide for Me: The Millions Interviews Ersi Sotiropoulos
[A writer] does not have to be a mirror for his time. This is very silly, I think. Always, you have to step back a little. I, personally, take distance.
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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Makes Sharp Observations about the Hell of Retail and the Broader World
To a certain extent, each of these stories asks an old question: Am I too kind, or too dumb? Or are these the same things?
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Too Young for Too Long: On Daniel Torday’s ‘Boomer1’
What else should we make of social media, online brands, and the dopamine jackpot of going viral, other than a monetization of individual histories?
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It’s All So Much: On Lauren Groff’s ‘Florida’
Florida is not a “land of contrasts,” and Groff avoids this flimsy and inaccurate conceit. Instead, she incarnates Florida’s grotesque continuity, warping the line between past and present, spirit and flesh, flourishing and decay.
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Who Is Greek?
Writers wrestle in their stories with the myth of Greekness, working out an answer on the queer bodies of characters who identify as Greek differently from how they are supposed to.
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