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Rereading Remainder by Tom McCarthy
The second read is always the honest one. The first time you're following the plot; the second time you're watching the machinery. McCarthy's machinery is obsessive, repetitive, and completely deliberate — which is exactly the point.
8 minKnausgård and the Ethics of Embarrassment
My Struggle is an act of sustained self-exposure that implicates everyone around its author. The question isn't whether Knausgård had the right to write it — he clearly did. The question is what it means to make art from other people's lives without their consent.
10 min