Good old apocalypse: itâs always there when we need it, ready to give shape to our baggy existential crises. As the critic Frank Kermode once wrote, the end times are a âconcord-fiction,â... Read more »
Our era runs on biography. Stories—in film adaptations, novels, and pop songs alike—are received as the clarion calls of so many “voices.” The myth of an unencumbered, authentic voice persists. Even if... Read more »
Seventy years ago, before she was galactically famous, before she dropped an “a” from her first name, before she was a Broadway ingénue, before her nose bump was aspirational, before she changed... Read more »