I don't want to talk about it: On Brandon Taylor’s “The Late Americans”
Taylor’s characters fail to reconcile deeper emotional desires with the reality that their immediate environment is not a place to escape, but rather the very territory in which “real life” happens.
The Writing Kind: On Kate Zambreno’s “The Light Room”
Zambreno shares my want, which is Cornell’s want: to hone in on the shifting gradations of light and temperature throughout the day by being present to the world and those within it.