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Red Pill. Knopf, 2020.
The writing of fiction premises a shared mooring in certain social facts. What happens when such consensus is dissolved through fractionalization, the willful spread of lies, or the achievement of the former by means of the latter? Though it will take some time for them to become the subject of literature, the events of January 6 themselves present an object lesson in exactly this sort of dissolution. The storming of the Capitol resulting in the deaths of four of Donald Trump’s supporters as well as a police officer yielded a media spectacle that verged throughout on the unreal. Something in the elaborate costumery and foiled eleventh-hour plot of our villain seemed to have been anticipated dozens of times before, in logic if not episode. It’s not that you couldn’t make it up, but rather that any such invention would be redundant. Fiction’s usual vocation had, it felt, migrated into the fabric of the political field.
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The Best Books Of 2020
The 10 reads from Emily St. John Mandel, Raven Leilani, Marie-Helene Bertino and more that added joy, clarity and color to my year.
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Writing a list of the best books of the year is always a bit of a fool’s errand; for a single person to read all of the contenders, with due care, is nearly impossible, and then there are the confounding factors of taste and bias and simply having an off day. That’s in a normal year.
For many of us, 2020 rearranged our relationship to reading. Perhaps there were vast new stretches of unfilled time, and to-read piles offered themselves as a solution. Perhaps uncontrolled anxiety and the lure of Twitter made concentrating on the page more daunting than ever. Perhaps extra shifts needed to be picked up at work, or financial stresses consumed every waking moment.
Hari Kunzruâs Novel Red Pill Is a Literary Document of the Age of the Alt-Right
Kunzruâs latest novel follows the mental unraveling of a liberal Brooklyn-dwelling creative as he finds himself being drawn into the world of the alt-right. In an interview, Kunzru reflects on the nature of the alt-rightâs appeal and the dilemmas it poses for the Left.
A QAnon sign at a campaign rally for President Trump in February. Photo: Reuters/Patrick T. Fallon
In Hari Kunzruâs novel
Red Pill, the nameless narrator leaves Brooklyn for a residency in Berlin at the Deuter Center, where he hopes to finally write something ambitious that will dispel his secret fear of his own mediocrity. But that hope is dead on arrival.
HT reviewer Percy Bharucha picks his best reads of 2020
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