Posted on October 26, 2016
by nadia bulkin
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Despite being a show about “the horrors of technology,” the best thing about Black Mirror has always been its compassion for its characters and its exquisite articulations of psychological pain – things that transcend technology.
Posted on November 20, 2013
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Well, it’s from 2005. In my defense, I was graduating high school then and definitely not reading The New Yorker. But I digress: “Commcomm” by George Saunders. It won the World Fantasy Award. You will laugh and you will cry. It’s like Catch-22, but with…
Posted on November 18, 2013
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“Man vs. Corpse,” by Zadie Smith, at New York Review of Books: It’s argued that the gap between this local care and distant indifference is a natural instinct. Natural or not, the indifference grows, until we approach a point at which the conceptual gap between…
Posted on November 7, 2013
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recommended fiction “The Beasts of the Earth, the Madness of Men,” by Brooke Bolander, at Nightmare