The cronista hunts big game with a pocketknife. A brief description of the old neighborhood soccer team suggests the unrelenting passage of time; a glimpse of a stranger’s arm during a turbulent flight leads to a reflection on life and death. “There’s a right way to start a crônica by using a triviality,” Machado de […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/04/06/the-unbearable-weight-of-levity-clarice-lispector/