I had asked, at first, what we should do with the art made by monstrous people. But, as I thought about it more, I realized I wasn’t looking for a prescription, exactly. I have published two memoirs, which means I am, I suppose, a memoirist, though it’s a very uncomfortable label. As a memoirist, I struggled for years to separate prescription from description. Good memoir describes the writer’s life; it doesn’t tell the reader what to do with her own life. I was noticing that same impulse at work here: I was less interested in a clear-cut solution than in anatomizing the problem. What happens
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