Merve Emre

I think the Cusk piece is best read as a fascinating & powerful projection of Cusk's own preoccupations onto a writer who, for the most part, does not share them.

This extraordinary reported piece by @HeidilBlake reveals how misogyny is a coordinated global effort among self-interested states—in this case, the U.K. and the UAE, which value profitable trade relations more than the lives of women.

What’s pretty amazing about this book is not just that it helps you understand the Critique of Pure Reason and quantum physics, but that it helps you understand each through the other.

I’m reading it now along with the Gilgamesh translation; amazing, amazing work.

The whole essay is just fantastic.

Such a good book. (Nick's.)

If anyone wants to read a timely novel, about the simultaneous annihilation of the MLA *and* San Francisco, may I recommend: