Pure – Reads A Lot

The Price of Success in “Pure Life” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsMay 3, 2022 by Ian J. Battaglia

[ad_1] Success is difficult to define. In the modern American landscape, it’s a term that’s become more or less synonymous with wealth rather than any sort of achievement. In the podcast The Relentless Picnic, the hosts remarked on the seeming absurdity that one could be considered a born-success. Fortunately, that’s not a problem for Nineteen, … Read more

Art in the Face of Collapse in “Pure Colour” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsFebruary 18, 2022 by Grace Linden

[ad_1] When we first meet Mira, the protagonist of Sheila Heti’s stunning, elegiac new novel Pure Colour, the universe is a roughly hewn first draft destined for the rubbish bin. Mira has just been accepted to study at the American Academy of American Critics. She works at a lamp store surrounded by bijoux glass. Her … Read more