The Reconstruction of Derrida: Peter Salmon’s An Event, Perhaps
The key insight is that names, and indeed all boundaries, involve a hierarchy.
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...moreAhmed Naji discusses his new memoir, ROTTEN EVIDENCE.
...moreRon A. Austin discusses his debut novel, AVERY COLT IS A THIEF, A SNAKE, A LIAR.
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...moreWriters experience all sorts of anxieties and doubts, such that many find themselves taking a spiraling descent into the worst existential crises. No writer should feel alone in this—over at The Millions, Robert Fay writes about the many writers who have fought the long hard battle against nihilism in their writing careers.
...more“Love,” then is not to be taken lightly here. It is being engaged at full force, megaphonically.
...moreReading novels breaks down the boundary between “me” and “not me.” Over at the Atlantic, Nicholas Dames writes about a deeply worrying feeling that contemporary fiction isn’t living up to Cervantes’s standards, opting for nihilistic individualism rather than empathy.
...moreIf Laurel and Hardy stumbled into Mike Leigh’s Naked, the result might resemble writer and philosophy lecturer Lars Iyer’s novels.
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