![]() Now she is entrusted with letters asking: What is the best way to prepare my children for the coming chaos? What is the philosophy of late capitalism? How can I tell if those around me would become good Germans? Do angels need sleep? (‘It is unlikely, though we cannot be completely sure.’) ![]() Once, she was a postgraduate research student, before giving this up in favour of ‘squandering my promise’. Lizzie Benson is paid to answer questions. What if we went for a walk, if we walked out into the streets? The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. In those disaster movies, the hero always says, ‘Trust me,’ and the one who is about to die says, ‘Do I have a choice?’ Jenny Offill, Weather ![]()
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