Against Summary
The machines will summarize anything now, instantly and adequately. Which is exactly why the summary is the wrong thing to want.
Tag: criticism
The Sentence as a Unit of Care
You can tell within a page whether a writer loves sentences or merely uses them. On prose style as a form of hospitality.
In Defense of Difficult Books
Difficulty is not a tax the reader pays; sometimes it is the content itself. Against the frictionless book, and the review culture that demands it.