Comforting Myths: Concerning the Political in Art (Kapnick Foundation Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Lectures)

by Rabih Alameddine

How is a novel that exalts a way of life, any way of life, not political? A novel about a doctor who moves to a small town and is beaten up by drunks upon arrival is considered not, but an immigrant who moves to a small town and gets attacked is.