![]() under the 45th president struck me as particularly apt: “The problem was that the dictator was very funny, which had maybe always been true of all dictators. Told in snippets, the story is about a person whose life revolves around “the portal,” a name (and slight distancing reference) for the internet. After a year in isolation, reading Patricia Lockwood’s No One is Talking About This felt like hearing a more clever and entertaining version of my inner monologue until it turned to its theme, which is the effect of the life and death of her niece, and then the theme turned into a focal point for all the absurd and profound grief that has accumulated, the grief of everyone left in the world. ![]()
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