“The best close readers are always attentive to many different forms at different scales operating at once.”— Caroline Levine, amazon.com
“In few other professions are you required, each and every day, to weigh so many competing claims— between different sets of constituents, between the interests of your state and the interests of the nation, between party loyalty and your own sense of independence, between the value of service and ob…”— Barack Obama, amazon.com