![]() ![]() I’ll read whatever she writes, as long as I’m around. Her sentences have an ideal speed-to-power ratio. At the same time, one or two of her lesser essays find her swinging too frequently from quotation to quotation, as if from vine to vine. She is capable of quoting James Wood, Axl Rose and the philosopher Mark Jefferson in the space of four or five sentences without sounding deranged. ![]() ![]() Jamison is painfully well read and well informed. Jamison grapple with empathy is a heart-expanding exercise. I’m not sure I’m capable of recommending a book because it might make you a better person. her cerebral, witty, multichambered essays tend to swing around to one topic in particular: what we mean when we say that we feel someone else’s pain. calls to mind writers as disparate as Joan Didion and John Jeremiah Sullivan as she interrogates the palpitations of not just her own trippy heart but of all of ours. ![]()
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