Loud, forceful, empty?
For Katie Roiphe, like Caitlin Flanagan, dodgy polemic trumps reasoned analysis. This week: contemporary fiction is flaccid.
For Katie Roiphe, like Caitlin Flanagan, dodgy polemic trumps reasoned analysis. This week: contemporary fiction is flaccid.
Reading Arthur C. Clarke’s Profiles of the Future makes Darragh McManus slightly wistful for the midcentury futurists’ naïveté and optimism.
Hilary Mantel imagines the life of Cinderella twenty years later, after the tabloids have turned on her and the prince is searching for a mistress. (See also Carol Burnett’s Snow White: 15 years later.)
Don DeLillo, A.M. Homes, Edward Albee, E.L. Doctorow, and other PEN members held a New Year’s Eve rally to call for release of Liu Xiaobo.
Happy New Year from frigid (but no longer snowy) Brooklyn. Wishing you all good things in 2010.