A Diagnosis

From a “supertaster of the present moment” (Jonathan Lethem), a brilliant speculation on the bureaucratic-corporate-pharmaceutical police state and the ways it acts upon our psyches and relationships

But a diagnosis will dog you. It will track your steps and follow you, panting, into the night.

New York is months into yet another police lockdown. Most people have abandoned the city. Stores are shuttered and the streets are empty, except for cops standing on every corner and the stream of driv...