Review: The Prisoner by Thomas M. Disch (at PopMatters)

My most recent review, of The Prisoner by Thomas M. Disch is live at PopMatters.

A snippet:

Ultimately, Number Six and his attempts to prove that he is not a number are a thinly veiled metaphor for our own attempts to prove the same. I am not a number, I am (to use the phrase repeated throughout the show and in the novel) a free man.

Yet, I am a cell phone. I have to regularly list my social security number on applications. I drag around notes scribbled on the backs of old receipts to remind...