This Can’t Have Happened Before
I'm currently reading Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. It's fiction, and yet it's not. No writer can set down a word without the business of life passing before his eyes, stirring up thoughts, emotions, memories, conundrums. It's a book for our time. I would rather it were not so, but I would also rather eat my fill of Thin Mints. The passage quoted below [...]
