“It’s no wonder…that the American writer keeps running off to Europe.Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy.”

- James Baldwin “The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American” (1959)

Jane Lewty attends Esther Kläs’s exhibition How to Imagine Difference at Baltimore’s CPM Gallery for The Hopkins Review, where she considers the possibilities of fragments and debris, both physical and philosophical.

hopkinsreview.com/features/est...

📚💙
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
1/20
#books
#booksky

My opinion: Charles Dickens is at his best when he’s doing something a little silly