A WHILE AGO, I tried using one of those speed-reading apps for the first — and probably last — time. My chosen text was The Flame Alphabet, Ben Marcus’s disconcerting foray into science fiction, in which characters are poisoned by exposure to language. I knew how they felt. On the smartphone screen, word after word […]
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