Franz Kafka’s work taught the writer Jonathan Lethem about how to incorporate chaos into narratives.
“The silence of death rests on the vast landscape, save when it is swept by cruel winds that search out every chink and cranny of the buildings, and drive through each unguarded aperture the dry, powdery snow.”
Who better to analyze the beleaguered rapper’s 25-track double album?
The biologist David Sischo has a tragic assignment: keeping vigil over a species’ sole survivor, then marking its extinction in real time.
Memory and other mental functions can’t simply be reduced to one part of the brain.