Against Interpretation: meeting art at the surface
Why explanation can become a screen between an artwork and the experience it offers.
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Writing
Criticism, translation, reading, and the writer's vocation.
Pride and Prejudice: an opening
Jane Austen begins with a polished certainty, then lets conversation expose everything it conceals.
Persuasion: Sir Walter's favourite volume
A fragment from Jane Austen's final completed novel, opening on vanity rendered with exact comic control.
