fromThe New Yorker
5 days agoMona Awad on Enchantment as a Sinister Force
The story describes the moment after she's found a new hue-chartreuse-and has decided to buy the piece: "One finger, a few clicks, that was all she had to do. Add to cart. Checkout. Then Google would know her, the machine would let her. . . . Always a hesitation with the credit-card click, that was part of it. The held breath, the raised finger, the uncertainty, a sense of underlying stakes."
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