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When the second half begins to drift, the absence of electric drive-by observation and intellection becomes more apparent.

Even its harshest critics had to acknowledge its ambition; it took on Argentina’s Dirty War, gaming culture and high theory, wrangling with the problem of how to dramatize intellection and laying bare a fascinating mind.

Trethewey’s memoir is a controlled burn of chaos and intellection; it’s a memoir that will really lay you out.

It is a controlled burn of chaos and intellection; it is a memoir that will really lay you out.”

In books of the 1920s and ’30s — the Golden Age — one can experience the calm of austere intellection, observe the restoration of order after chaos.