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“‘ This was the fate of Palestinian men , I thought.”
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“… “I still believe that the songs or books we love contain blueprints for how we hope to live, and Dillon’s memoir embodies how these personal canons inflect the way we understand and express ourselves.”
“I’m about a decade younger than Dillon, and I recognized his desire to hoard and paw at any morsel connecting his small world to an alternative culture somewhere out there.”
“The journalist Jacob Weisberg is one of the first to attempt to chronicle this new landscape.”
“Honey uses this uncertainty to help drive the story forward.”
“Ronson’s empathy is not boundless; he draws hard lines around some of Mark’s behavior.”
“Honey is a literary case study in which conflict is not abuse.”
“Khalil does not want to be shot at, or sought by the secret police, or detained in some for-profit gulag.”
“Ambivalence isn’t a how-I-did-it prehistory of his career, as it ends well before he published anything of note.”
“But, at times, Yrsa’s psychological core gets lost amid the story’s momentum.”
“… “ Honey isn’t just a serial-killer novel; it is a revenge story, but also a satire of a society obsessed with rectitude.”
“The writer and editor has become known for a kind of memoir-inflected approach to criticism, publishing a series of entrancing books that are as much about questions of form and technique as they are about art’s power to move and transform .”
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“Their example upholds what’s left of this country’s reputation for courage.” –Joseph O’Neill on Jared Weisberg’s Profiles in Cowardice: A Study of Collaboration in the Trump Era ( The New York Times Book Review ) “The overheated circuits of teen-age life are well-worn ground for a coming-of-age story, yet Dillon’s approach is anything but.”
“Because cowardice ‘wears disguises: pragmatism, realism, caution, institutional loyalty,’ he investigates the specific situational and psychological forces at play in the moral downfall of each of his subjects, taking care, it must be said, to acknowledge that it isn’t straightforward to resist lawless state power.”
“He wants to live a normal life in his home with his wife and son, something that the world around him has decided is impossible, and so he struggles on.” –Felipe De La Hoz on Mahmoud Khalil’s No Land to Stand On: Notes from Detention ( The New Republic ) “ Honey is frantically twisted and sardonically dark.”
“Ronson is probably best-known for his 2015 book, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed , a journalistic account of the emotional incentives and historical context behind the social-media-fueled frenzy that became known as ‘cancel culture.’ Like the people in that book, many of the subjects of The Castle have been shoved to the margins.”
“It’s an ode to a kind of boredom that feels desperate, endless, and, in retrospect, luxurious.”
“Her revenge isn’t just visceral—it is academically grounded.”
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“A nation long perceived, not least by its own nationals, as resilient and courageous—a people of gallant pioneers, fearless entrepreneurs, irresistible war heroes, nerveless astronauts, brave civil rights activists—is now forced to contemplate an entirely new set of data.”
“‘She does what comes easily,’ Thompson writes.”
“At times, we are even left wondering: Was Yrsa actually injured, or does she only imagine herself to be?” –Edna Bonhomme on Imani Thompson’s Honey ( The Nation ) “I thought about Ye while I was reading The Castle , a new nonfiction work by the journalist Jon Ronson that attempts to unpack the motivations of wayward men who no longer fit into traditional society.”
“As a child of the nineties, I at least had the benefit of cable television and the early days of dial-up internet.”