Think You Know What Somebody Is Thinking?
“Theory of Mind,” meet Henry James. The post Think You Know What Somebody Is Thinking? appeared first on Nautilus.
by Tasnuva Elahi
Oct 26, 2023
2 minutes
Science journalism is really about everything, I like telling my science-journalism students, because science is really about everything. Take The Golden Bowl, the insanely prolix novel by Henry James, which I read as penance after zipping through a Stephen King gore-fest.
, I’d heard, is a slog compared to thrillers like and , but James called his “solidest” novel. By that he must have meant the most Jamesian because reads like a parody
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