We can’t dismantle or parse or interrogate the literary world any further—it is time to look up from the microscope and adjust our eyes to what’s left.

To spend the majority of your time crafting artificial symbols on a surface—whether your medium is stone, paper, or pixels—will always be a curious behavior.

Why do writers distrust sentimentality?

What creates the chronology of a story?

Here we have the rise, machinations, and collapse of a kingdom.