A few days ago, one of my students asked me what I was reading, so I told her about Jean Hanff Korelitz’s new novel, called The Devil and Webster. My student’s eyes got wider as I finished lightly summarizing the plot, and she said, with some concern about Korelitz: “I hope she’s ready for all the angry tweets and emails.”
Yeah, I think she probably is.
Korelitz’s new novel is a smart, semi-satire about the reign of identity politics on college campuses today. That, in itself, is a tricky subject for a white novelist to tackle, unless she or he is a far-right conservative, which Korelitz is not.
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