Wrestling with the Beast in John Gray’s “The New Leviathans” – Chicago Review of Books

Wrestling with the Beast in John Gray’s “The New Leviathans” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Is liberalism dead? Has that dewy-eyed, woke, overly optimistic beast of limited eyesight, enlarged heart, and dangerously underdeveloped brain, this Jabberwocky of the geopolitical wood finally been slain? More to the point, can we at last acknowledge that there are no such things as universal values, no inherently reliable truth to language, and that … Read more

John Irving’s Ally Fiction and the Roe Half-Century – Chicago Review of Books

John Irving’s Ally Fiction and the Roe Half-Century – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] John Irving has declared that his new book, an irresistible and deeply affecting family saga titled The Last Chairlift, will be the last long novel of his long career. And it is, indeed, the longest. The Last Chairlift teems with the raucous situational humor, memorable and resonant characters, righteous rage, instructive social commentary, and … Read more