Pandemics, the climate crisis and the algorithms used by tech giants feel too amorphous to squeeze into the dramatic form "What the American public wants is a tragedy with a happy ending," the American critic William Dean Howells once said (at least according to Edith Wharton). Maybe it's what we all want, now, from our dramas. Who wants to sit down to make-believe tragedy at the end of a day brimming with real trage…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PM on January 16, 2022