Stillness
It is widely said that Shakespeare wrote King Lear while in quarantine. As our Covid-19 quarantine enters the early stages of coming to an end I find that I’ve done little more than read an embarrassing amount of internet articles about what happened to the friendship of Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss. While I’m not proud of the amount of time spent reading endless Twitter timelines about their glamorous girls’ nights and road trip selfies, it was a much-needed break from politics and pandemic news. The novels I choose are almost never feel-good stories, so I was also ready for a few days’ break from the identity crises of Jeffrey Eugenides, although I still cannot recommend Middlesex enough because a novel that doesn’t feature a character with an identity crisis may as well not exist in my opinion. During my fall down the celebrity story rabbit-hole – wait, model Karlie Kloss is married to Joshua Kushner who is brothers with Jared Kushner who is married to Ivanka Trump who is daugh
