(noun) a shroud for the dead / (noun) cerecloth
Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997-2019
by
James Wood
June 16, 2020 - June 19, 2020
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Wood, J. (2020). Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997-2019. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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cerement »
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limpid »
(adjective) marked by transparency; pellucid / (a…
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emollient »
(adjective) making soft or supple / (adjective) s…
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locution »
(noun) a particular form of expression or a pecul…
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elegiac »
relating to or characteristic of an elegy.
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So Mleville slapped at God. He could not help pla…
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Or perhaps this is just my fear projected onto hi…
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[...] When I left this country 18 years ago, I di…
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had a piano teacher who used to talk about the m…
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[...] Roth's details and images are often not pri…
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Introduction
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Serious noticing
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Hysterical realism
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Reality examined to the point of madness’: László Krasznahorkai
—also in
The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays
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Wounder and wounded
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On not going home
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Becoming them
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Dostoevsky’s god
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Elena Ferrante
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Job existed: Primo Levi
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Marilynne Robinson
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Ismail Kadare
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Jenny Erpenbeck
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