Moshfegh has a lock on a particular zeitgeist that I have identified, NYT-like–e.g., I have seen at least one other similar item, have decided two points make a trend, and am now on the hunt for more books that prove my point. The trend: bodily horror, especially related to starvation or atrophy of the human body, as a mechanism to reject Rousseau and vindicate Hobbes’ contention that life outside society would be solitary, nasty, brutish, and short. In this case, by showing that even within […]
“Anything could be cajoled into sense if he thought enough about it.”
Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh












