This week, it has become clear that Whitehead’s vision of apocalypse is a tale about the act of reading blanks, the act of interpreting signs ripped from their original context and significance. Spitz’s world is mediated by the vocabulary and imagery of the book. Spitz, “interpret[s] the rooms of…
More from this week’s discussion of Colson Whitehead’s Zone One and Cormac McCarthy’s The Sense of an Ending.
