#category_books

[pbattctmar]

Reading Comprehension: Text No. 1

A satire of the Chilean university entrance exam.

No. The quiz is part of the story. That’s what makes it work. 

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“Escape from New York”

A new story: “He could not get over how well he was handling the apocalypse so far.”

[carcanetpress]

John Ashbery’s Feat of Style

His way of expressing feeling through frivolity is widely imitated, but he still does it best.

‘He has gone farther from literature within literature than any poet alive. His game is to make an intentionally frivolous style express the full range of human feeling, and he remains funnier and better at it, a game he invented, than his many imitators.’ 

[arequiemforone]

When Brain Surgery Goes Wrong

In “Do No Harm,” one of Britain’s foremost neurosurgeons offers an anatomy of error.