Showing posts with label Macmillan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Macmillan. Show all posts

 

"What she had cared for was his commitment to their shared narrative, the endless interpretive games that had made up their life together." 

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The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams

 

"The primary function of gender identity as a political concept—and, increasingly, a legal one—is to bracket, if not to totally deny, the role of desire in the thing we call gender."

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Authority by Andrea Long Chu

 

"I need you / the way astonishment, / which is really just / the disruption of routine, / requires routine."

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Scattered Snows, to the North by Carl Phillips

 

"The ringing stopped. That afternoon she slept and half slept and had her first real dream, which was of floating, sailing, going away. It was pleasant, brightly lit, and faintly erotic. There emerged the face of a Russian she and her mother had once talked to in a hotel."

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Green Water, Green Sky by Mavis Gallant

 

"The English version of Mémoires Intimes has several advantages over the French. For one thing, it is shorter, though still not short enough." 

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Paris Notebooks: Essays & Reviews by Mavis Gallant

 

"This is hell, she thought the next morning when twenty-four hours had passed. This is what hell feels like and this is a hell that actually exists. She was burning up from the inside."

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Wilful Disregard by Lena Andersson

 

"Neuroscientists have argued that exercise can encourage innovation and problem-solving. Not because it helps us study more rigorously, but because it allows our intellect to relax a little; to digest our meal of facts and arguments. Researchers describe it as 'transient hypofrontality': the prefrontal cortex, which helps to make general concepts and rules, is turned down, while the motor and sensory parts of the brain are turned up. It's what might be called 'walker's reverie.'" 

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How to Think about Exercise by Damon Young

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