Mar 20, 2020
Novel Times
Why novels will save our sanity during self-isolation, sheltering, and shops at the supermarket. Maybe.
[T]hink instead of literature as a site of concentration… literature as the stillness at the eye of the storm.
James Wood, How Fiction Works (Vintage 2019).
‘Going on holiday? Did you know that Sainsbury’s carries currencies for over forty-fives countries right here in the store?’ A bodyless but cheerful female voice booms out over the loudspeaker as I trundle my shopping trolley down an aisle. I…
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