![]() ![]() ![]() It is a political novel, but it is quiet, careful, and fully attuned to the ways people-nice, normal people-are utter and irredeemable assholes. Brandon Taylor’s Real Life refuses this kind of solace. There is a way to use a novel to preach to a choir, to those who denounce the wrongdoing of others while ignoring their own culpability. There is a way to use the novel as a balm to soothe the tempers of people who see themselves as opposed to cruelty, to violence, to climate disaster. Yet the process of digesting the various horrors of the present into prose isn’t always noble. HOW DO YOU WRITE A POLITICAL NOVEL IN 2020? How do you not write a political novel in 2020? It is impossible to imagine a contemporary writer presenting a version of the world that is not marked in some way by Trumpism, the threat of ecological catastrophe, the deepening gulf between the haves and the have-nots, the spectacle of racist police brutality. ![]()
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