imperishability

The seeming imperishability of racial injustice in America serves as the smoldering core of this opera’s formidable power.

In Toltz’s pages, imperishability doesn’t convey any transformation at all.

In this book, our critic Parul Sehgal writes, “you can hear an old note, a note I’ve missed in American fiction, and am surprised to have noticed myself missing — for so long it seemed dominant to the point of imperishability. The violent, surreal, often cartoonish scenarios delivered deadpan that draw attention to the freakishness of ordinary life.”

In these snippets, you can hear an old note, a note I’ve missed in American fiction, and am surprised to have noticed myself missing — for so long it seemed dominant to the point of imperishability.

What, he asks himself, must he tell his 7-year-old son before he’s carried away to imperishability?