‘When We Cease to Understand the World’ 5 years ago
Hysterical Realism.
Learn to recognize the style. Its exploding all around us and can be safely ignored.
Writers in the west, growing up insecure about what happens next are defaulting to hysterical realism, because many have lost the ability generate Faith. Faith in what? Faith that tomorrow can be a better day. That requires much more work than showing unequipped people a reality that mesmerises while it overwhelms.
Always pick writers who produce Faith over writers who cant. Its like eating healthy.