elision

This elision—from recognizing war photography in Gaza to celebrating gender-based violence during a cease-fire—isn’t subtle.

But even storytellers of a more prosaic bent could learn something from Jackson’s gift for narrative elision and economy, her insistence on the primacy of the visual and her sparing use of music.

The near-total absence of these considerations from “Carmageddon” — its elision of political problems in favor of technical fixes — makes the book feel, like so many of its genre-mates, disconnected from the very problems to which it draws our attention.

That’s indicative of a problem throughout “Skinfolk” — Guterl chooses elision over concrete depiction in the memoir’s hardest moments.

The woman is Ruhaba Khan, a Pakistani law professor whose voice comes to us only in her emails — an intriguing elision not unlike the titular character’s from “Lolita.”