Review: Book argues that pop culture is eating itself

Review: Book argues that pop culture is eating itself The phrase “Time is a flat circle” often refers to how the manic post-pandemic news cycle makes comprehension of the recent past impossible. A similarly dazed bafflement is explored in W. David Marx’s lucid and entertaining —yet despairing — book about the new millennium’s flattening of culture, “Blank Space.” One of the primary culprits Marx identifies is perhaps his most controversial theme: ...