OTHER PEOPLE

An intellectually thrilling and emotionally wrenching investigation of otherness: the need for one person to understand another pers on completely, the impossibility of any such absolute knowing, and the erotics of this separation. Can one person know another perso n? How do we live through other people? Is it possible to fill the gap between people? If not, can art fill that gap? Grappling with these questions, David Shields gives us a book that is something of a revelation: seventy-plus essays, written over the last thirty -five ye...[Read more]