Apropos of Something etc They haven’t been happy since

They haven’t been happy since the nursery they decorated started gathering cobwebs

The other trainees would love to spill her common blood

such as carp

With the one-time partners at a low ebb

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

Apropos of Something etc They haven’t been happy sinceA history of the idea of relevance since the nineteenth century in art, criticism, philosophy, logic, and social thought. Before 1800 nothing was irrelevant. So argues Elisa Tamarkins sweeping meditation on a key shift in consciousness: the arrival of relevance as the means to grasp how something that was once disregarded, unvalued, or lost to us becomes interesting and important. When so much makes claims to our attention every day, how do we decide