So That’s what The Candy House Is
The Sweet Home is a novel of characters, a few of whom first appeared in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad. Egan develops the characters and lets them unfastened to do as...
Daily Archive: February 6, 2025
Homesick on the Internet: The Sweet House
What sorts of technology will we must invent to elude this kind of algorithmic tyranny? Our tech gods may be much less benevolent than hers, and our disciples — on each sides — less...
Why it’s Best to Read This: ‘The Candy House’
He’s a reasonably good man whose time has come, and he’s good with that. Why shouldn’t he be? For others, nevertheless, that sweet tastes an terrible lot like poison, they usually develop into “eluders,”...
