What Brandon Taylor thinks about courage

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American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture.

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1. 17 Sept 2026

   Our readingTests of courage may really be tests of imagination: whether you can imagine a world beyond the one you are in.

   Their wordsIt is not really a test of courage, or if it is, maybe all tests of courage are really tests of imagination, a test that asks, Can you imagine a world beyond this?

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