Sublime

Authorship, after all, is not only what is created but also what is selected.

Gayatri Chakravorty…

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People like him show that a deeper intimacy with nature is possible and that this intimacy does not have to rely on the obliterative arrogance of Western culture.

I see a similar battle playing out for our time, a colonization of the self by capitalist ideas of productivity and efficiency.

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The awareness gave him pause: perhaps a funny-looking mixed-race kid could exist at the center of the world, not just on its periphery.

The result is that we largely end up going to writers of color to learn the specific—and go to white writers to feel the universal.

The stakes are too high and the stubborn hopefulness of those struggling to re-create this gloomy world too contagious to resign myself to dour pessimism.