Introversion Has Its Limits
Adam Mars-Jones: ‘Essayism’, 8 March 2018
Sound: Stories of Hearing Lost and Found
by Bella Bathurst.
Wellcome, 224 pp., £8.99, February 2018,978 1 78125 776 0 Show More
by Bella Bathurst.
Wellcome, 224 pp., £8.99, February 2018,
Proxies: A Memoir in Twenty-Four Attempts
by Brian Blanchfield.
Picador, 181 pp., £9.99, August 2017,978 1 5098 4785 3 Show More
by Brian Blanchfield.
Picador, 181 pp., £9.99, August 2017,
“... capable of becoming mantras of a sophisticated sort, gaining power from repeated contemplation. Elizabeth Hardwick’s ‘coolly composed sentences’, for instance, gave Dillon something to hang on to, ‘but there was enough about them of intentional disarray that I felt as though in her essayism she understood extremes.’ He makes a meal of one ... ”
