Two Versions of Dystopia
Dream Hotel foregrounds our willingness to sacrifice privacy, considerable sums of money, and the well-being of the less fortunate for our own immediate comfort.
Three Books About Life and Death
Lear explores the fundamental contradiction between the quite extraordinary state of science and medicine—our highly developed understanding of how the body works and how to fix it when it goes wrong—and our lack of knowledge about the hidden nature of consciousness itself, or how the body and soul combine to make what we call life.