The Skin of Time. The Book of Changes

Saying goodbye to the past and looking into the future, the new book of essays by Alexander Genis «The Skin of Time» primarily captures changes. Minor and grand, they are all fateful, as they make today strikingly different from yesterday.
«The hardest thing is to recognize, hear, discern, touch, notice, catch, and pin down the present to paper. It is in plain sight and precisely for that reason not always noticeable; it turns us into contemporaries and leaves traces on the skin. Like a tattoo» (Alexander