Apropos of Something etc All of Lisa Jewell's books

All of Lisa Jewell's books are fabulous

clear debts

And the prime suspects happen to be

such as carp

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

Apropos of Something etc All of Lisa Jewell's booksA history of the idea of relevance since the nineteenth century in art, criticism, philosophy, logic, and social thought. Before 1800 nothing was irrelevant. So argues Elisa Tamarkins sweeping meditation on a key shift in consciousness: the arrival of relevance as the means to grasp how something that was once disregarded, unvalued, or lost to us becomes interesting and important. When so much makes claims to our attention every day, how do we decide