"In three timely new books, David Levi Strauss considers the profound effects that photography, terror, and divisive politics have had on the twenty-first-century imagination."

Though I’m usually averse to reading that centers the twin towers’ collapsing, I love the relation of that event to “a radical dislocation of the real.” The unreal-ness discussed (and the unreal-ing) is super powerful. Also interesting how magic is brought up and can be seen as that thing that bridges realness & unrealing.