Portnoy’s Revenge
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 20th, 2011 4:37 am by HL
Portnoy’s Revenge
Not long after Philip Roth published Portnoy’s Complaint, Jacqueline Susann went on the Johnny Carson show. Susann, we remember, had become famous for her pulp novel Valley of the Dolls, which triangulated, in what seemed an all-American way, ambition, sex…
The Ridiculous American Exceptionalism Debate
So glad to see Roger Cohen’s critique of the emerging 2012 foreign policy debate in this morning’s International Herald Tribune. As Cohen points out, the Republican candidates are all peddling the same caricature: They’re trying to cast Barack Obama as…