Little Eyes
Schweblin compels us, chastisingly, to recognise our own happy co-option of transparently exploitative technologies. Like the characters, our scepticism becomes diluted by what we tell might ourselves is passing interest, but could well be more like indoctrination or a managed addiction.
Louis Rogers reviews Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin.
3:AM in Lockdown 43: Wendy Erskine
The Contemptus Mundi Beat By Wendy Erskine. Many years ago, back when smoking was allowed on public transport, I got on a particular bus. From the back, as if through a cloud of grey dry ice, came the voices of three teenage girls, singing over and over again the words, ‘Life is just […]