HAVING AND BEING HAD

A timely and arresting new look at affluence by a consistently surprising writerMy adult life can be divided into two distinct part s, Eula Biss writes, the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after. Having just purchased her first home, she now embarks on a roguish and risky self-audit of the value system she has bought into. The result is a radical interrogation of work, le isure, and capitalism. Described by The New York Times as a writer who advances from all sides, like a chess player, Biss brings h er approach to ...[Read more]