Rae Greiner is an associate professor of English at Indiana University, author of Sympathetic Realism in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (2012), and coeditor of Victorian Studies. She hates her yard.
Rae Greiner
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Digital Lies, Real Ghosts
We’ve all obsessed over someone who isn’t there: fictional characters, an absent lover, the dead. The verb “obsess” means to haunt, harass, or torment, as an evil spirit. But we are usually the conjurors of our own ghosts. Andrew O’Hagan is different. The British journalist’s third work of nonfiction, The Secret Life, collects three previously […]
