Triggered.

• Author: Mangu-Ward, Katherine
• Position: Briefly Noted - Neil Gaiman's "Trigger Warnings" - Brief article

Neil Gaiman, best-selling author of American Gods, first encountered the phrase trigger warning online, where it served as a heads-up that clicking on a link might reveal ideas or images that could cause traumatic flashbacks. He was "fascinated," he says, "when trigger warnings crossed...into the world of things you could touch." He wondered if universities might someday warn students about his work, which often contains elements of the gorgeous grotesque (an ancient religious site made sacred by the ground up remains of hundreds of dead cats) or the hauntingly human (a first-person...