But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking about the Present as If It Were the Past

by Chuck Klosterman

In January of 2013, The New York Times Magazine published a cover story with the earnest headline “George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year.” That book, Tenth of December, was a slim, darkly humorous collection of short stories, most of which deal with the quintessence of kindness and the application of empathy.